Artificial Heart Valve Stent and Weaving Method Thereof

• US 20080275540A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lei Jin, Ning Wen
• Original Assignee: Lei Jin, Ning Wen
• Inventors: Wen, Ning
• Application Number:
  US12/093,216
• Publication Number:
  US 20080275540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/1.26
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2418 Scaffolds therefor, e.g. support stents
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2210/0076 multilayered, e.g. laminated structures
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0023 triangular
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0054 V-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0097 Harpoon-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0039 differing in diameter
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0098 radio-opaque, e.g. radio-opaque markers

Abstract

An artificial heart valve and weaving method thereof are disclosed. The valve stent includes a tubular stent (10), valve leaflets (33), sealing membranes (351, 354), x-ray opaque markers (311, 312) and flexible connecting loops (41). The middle segment (15) of the net stent (10) is tubular or drum-shaped, or provided with radial protrusion structures (153), or provided with outer annular structures (155), or provided with outer free tongues (156), or provided with radial protrusion structures (153) and outer free tongues (156). The stent can be made by up and down interweaving the same one elastic metal wire, and also can be made by up and down interweaving different elastic metal wires. Moreover, the structure, shape and function of the valve stent are optimized; in radical compression, the valve can be transported to the right place with the help of interventional device; after expansion, fitted with figure of the vascular wall in the radical and axial direction, the artificial heart valve stent will not produce paravalvular leak; even more after implanting, the valve has a normal effect on prevent the slippage of artificial valve, which is caused by the blood reflux through the closed valve.

Claims

1. An artificial heart valve stent comprising:

a tubule-shaped stent being able to radial transformation between expanding state and compressing state;

the stent comprising an upstream segment, a middle segment and a downstream segment;

a plurality of transformable units among each netline of the stent;

a plurality of arc line crutches made up or formed at two ends of the stent and sealed line eyes which are separated from transformable units;

a valve leaflet which can switch for blood passing through of unidirectional provided on inside of a middle segment of the stent, a valve leaflet joint line being formed at the junction of the valve leaflet and stent, a crosslink of two adjacent said valve leaflet joint lines forming a valve leaflet joint point;

both inside and outside faces of the upstream segment of the stent being covered with sealing membrane that is extended to the middle segment of the stent; and

a plurality of X-ray opaque markers and flexible hitch loops provided on the stent.

2. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 1, wherein the stent is made by interweaving of a same one of elastic metal line, two segments of the line can be slipped or rotated relating to each other at the crossing point thereof.

3. The artificial heart valve stent According to claim 1, wherein the middle segment of said stent can be deformed into at least one radial protrusion structure of outward protrusion on the basis of round tubular or slight drum-shape, one larger stent opening is provided in the centre of every radial protrusion structure, a half-mooned upward periphery and a half-mooned downward periphery are formed at the junction of said radial protrusion structure and stent itself, the half-mooned upward periphery is formed into the valve leaflet joint line connected with the valve leaflet, while said valve leaflet is corresponding to radial protrusion structure and is connected to half-mooned upstream periphery of the radial structure.

4. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 3, wherein said radial protrusion structure of said stent middle segment is one.

5. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 3, wherein said radial protrusion structure of said stent segment is two, said two radial protrusion structures are distributed by rotary angle from 90°

-180°

.

6. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 3, wherein said radial protrusion structure of the stent middle segment are three, which are uniformly distributed along circumference of the net-shaped stent.

7. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 3, wherein the upstream segment of said stent is horn-type.

8. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 7, wherein the outer edge of horn-type upstream segment is provided with wave-shaped edge, corresponding to said radial protrusion structure of the middle segment.

9. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 1, wherein the stent also comprises tubular net-shaped internal layer stent body, or the internal layer stent body with the radial protrusion structure, the stent body is connected with at least one outer layer tongue structure surrounded by net line, the outer layer tongue structure and internal layer stent body form a stationary edge at the downstream segment, or at the junction of the middle segment and downstream segment of said stent, and extend from stationary edge along the upstream segment to junction of the upstream and middle segments to form a free edge, moreover, the free edge overlaps with periphery of radial protrusion structure, at least with the half-mooned upstream periphery, on the two parallel carved surfaces.

10. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 9, wherein the number of out layer tongue structure is three, which are uniformly distributed by circumference in a rotary angle way, along the interior layer stent body.

11. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 9, wherein outer layer tongue structure is corresponding to interior layer radial protrusion structure at radial and axial directions, and they are provided on the same rotational angle.

16. The artificial heart valve stent according to claim 1, wherein said sealing loop is equipped at outside junction of upstream and middle segments of the stent, which is flexible half-open type tubule-shaped structure, on which a plurality of dot-shaped openings faced on outer face and inner face of membrane are provided, or a trough opening faced on inner face of the stent valve is provided.

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17. A weaving method of the stent comprising preparing an internal mould fitted with the configuration in expanding state of the stent, an elastic metal line is used as weaving line, main weaving points are as follows:

A. weave spirally along exterior outlines of the internal mould with the weaving lines until all transformable units have been built to weave a complete stent body,

B. the different line segments of weaving line form an up and down cross points when meeting at an intersection, while the up and down locations of the same line segment, at their adjacent cross points are converse,

C. Deformable units surrounded by the different line segments of the weaving lines are quadrangle, weaving line turned at the two tips of the stent form arched line-inflextions or line bump,

D. according to the need, sealed line eyes are made by turning the weaving lines round at least 360°

cyclically at two ends of the stent or other places,

E. for a stent with three radial protrusion structures, the number of deformable units located in a same radial plane of the stent are weaved into multiple of 3,

F. according to need, x-ray opaque markers are labeled on the weaving line of different places of the stent.

18. The weaving method of stent according to claim 17, wherein said sealed line eyes are weaved to be in same outline curve surface with the stent or are weaved to be vertical with the stent or to make any angle.

19. The weaving method of stent according to claim 17, wherein after has been weaved a stent body, the position of the local or all parts at the stent is re-weaved to form the stent of single layer multi-lines structure or two-layer structure or multilayer structure locally and completely.

20. The weaving method of stent according to claim 17, wherein the weaving lines are single elastic metal line.

21. The weaving method of stent according to claim 17, wherein the weaving lines are double lines or multiline, consisting of a plurality of elastic metal lines, comprising a single line made by x-ray opaque materials in them.

22. The weaving method of stent according to claim 17, wherein the weaving lines contains a plurality of single lines, each of which can be weaved into a stent, a plurality of stents are over lapped together to form a combined stent.

23. The weaving method of stent according to claim 17, wherein on the stent body weaved in step A, outer layer tongue structure can also be weaved, and the main points of the weaving of the lanque structure are as follows:

a. at the beginning weaving, lines are re-weaved from the downstream of the weaved stent body, as they are weaved to corresponding to the angle of 60°

around the stent, the lines are separated from the stent body, and after the lines extended outward are weaved into a tongue structure, then enter the stent through turning around symmetric opposite direction to be re-weaved, when weaving is nearly one third of circum around the stent, let the weaving lines separate from the stent body, after the lines extended outward are weaved into a tongue structure, then they enter in the stent body through turning around symmetric opposite direction to be re-weaved, until they are weaved into three outer layer structures, finally a segment of the weaving line enters into the stent body weave repeatedly to the downstream port of the stent again,

b. controlling the out and in points of the weaving line extended from the stent body and entered in the stent body and making them locate in the same radial plane, and controlling the distance between the out-point and in-point, which is corresponding to one third of circum turning around the stent, and controlling the free edge of the tongue structure located in the junction of the upstream and middle segments of the stent body.

26. The weaving method of stent according to claim 23, wherein said main point a, when a tongue structure is wrapped by weaving lines, its arc-crown generate sealed line eyes around at least 360°

, on the dual line segments of the line eye are put the x-ray paque maker loop.

27. The weaving method of stent according to claim 23, wherein said tongue structures and stent body are weaved by the same weaving line.

28. The weaving method of stent according to claim 23, wherein said tongue structures and stent body are weaved by different weaving line.

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