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Methods for delivering prosthetic valves to native heart valves

  • US 10,500,047 B2
  • Filed: 04/15/2016
  • Issued: 12/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • advancing a self-expandable support structure and a self-expandable prosthetic heart valve into a patient'"'"'s heart using a delivery apparatus and a transapical delivery approach, wherein the support structure and the prosthetic heart valve are in a radially compressed state;

    positioning the support structure on or adjacent a surface of an outflow side of the patient'"'"'s native aortic valve using the delivery apparatus;

    radially expanding the support structure from the compressed state to a fully expanded state, the support structure having a support-structure interior;

    positioning the prosthetic heart valve radially within the support-structure interior and within the patient'"'"'s native aortic valve using the delivery apparatus;

    radially expanding the prosthetic heart valve from the compressed state to an expanded state while the prosthetic heart valve is in the support-structure interior and while the support structure is in the fully expanded state; and

    releasing the support structure from the delivery apparatus after the prosthetic heart valve is radially expanded.

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