Prosthetic Heart Valves and Delivery Methods
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1. A method of remodeling a stented device and an adjacent valve region of a patient, comprising the steps of:
- implanting a stented device into a native valve region of a patient;
providing a first remodeling ring on a portion of a delivery system;
advancing the remodeling ring into an interior area of the implanted stented device with the delivery system;
radially expanding the remodeling ring until it modifies at least one of an aspect of a shape of the interior area of the implanted stented device and an aspect of a shape of the valve region in which it is positioned; and
removing the delivery system from the patient.
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Abstract
A method of remodeling a stented device and an adjacent a valve region of a patient, including the steps of implanting a stented device into a native valve region of a patient, providing a first remodeling ring on a portion of a delivery system, advancing the remodeling ring into an interior area of the implanted stented device with the delivery system, radially expanding the remodeling ring until it modifies at least one of an aspect of a shape of the interior area of the implanted stented device and an aspect of a shape of the valve region in which it is positioned, and removing the delivery system from the patient.
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1. A method of remodeling a stented device and an adjacent valve region of a patient, comprising the steps of:
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implanting a stented device into a native valve region of a patient; providing a first remodeling ring on a portion of a delivery system; advancing the remodeling ring into an interior area of the implanted stented device with the delivery system; radially expanding the remodeling ring until it modifies at least one of an aspect of a shape of the interior area of the implanted stented device and an aspect of a shape of the valve region in which it is positioned; and removing the delivery system from the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of remodeling a stented device and an adjacent valve region of a patient, comprising the steps of:
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implanting a low-radial force stented device into a native valve region of a patient; providing a first remodeling ring on an expandable portion of a delivery system; advancing the remodeling ring into an interior area of the implanted stented device with the delivery system; expanding the expandable portion of the delivery system to cause the remodeling ring to radially expand until it modifies at least one aspect of a shape of the interior area of the implanted stented device and also modifies at least one aspect of a shape of the valve region in which it is positioned; and removing the delivery system from the patient. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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