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ANNULOPLASTY RING WITH VARIABLE CROSS-SECTION

  • US 20160354206A1
  • Filed: 08/15/2016
  • Published: 12/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An annuloplasty ring, comprising:

  • a ring body comprising an inner single piece metallic structural support surrounded by a suture permeable interface, the ring body surrounding a central open area through which passes a flow axis and being discontinuous so as to define two free ends at a break in continuity around a periphery of the ring body, wherein the ring body has a relaxed configuration following a three-dimensional path that conforms to a valve annulus,wherein the structural support has two free ends and a radial cross-section that gradually changes around its length and is partly C-shaped in a mid-portion, and wherein the two free ends are rectangular in radial cross-section and are more flexible in bending about the axis than the C-shaped part of the cross-section.

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