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Suspended heart valve devices, systems, and methods for supplementing, repairing, or replacing a native heart valve

  • US 20050228495A1
  • Filed: 01/14/2005
  • Published: 10/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A valve prosthesis comprising a frame sized and configured to rest within a blood path subject to antegrade and retrograde blood flow, the frame including a trestle element that extends across the blood path and a leaflet assembly suspended from the trestle element that extends into the blood path in alignment with blood flow, the leaflet assembly including at least one mobile leaflet member sized and configured to assume orientations that change according to blood flow direction, the mobile leaflet member having an first orientation that permits antegrade blood flow and a second orientation that resists retrograde blood flow.

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