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DEGENERATIVE VALVULAR DISEASE SPECIFIC ANNULOPLASTY RINGS

  • US 20110034999A1
  • Filed: 08/16/2010
  • Published: 02/10/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An annuloplasty ring selected from a set of annuloplasty rings for correcting a heart valve annulus, the set of annuloplasty rings comprising:

  • a set of rings each having a ring body able to resist deformation when subjected to the stress imparted thereon by the valve annulus and arranged around a flow axis having an upward direction and a downward direction, the downward direction corresponding to the direction of blood flow through the valve annulus when the annuloplasty ring is implanted, each ring having an identified orifice size; and

    wherein the proportional shapes of the ring bodies change with increasing orifice sizes of the rings in the set.

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