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Device, assembly and method for mitral valve repair

  • US 6,797,001 B2
  • Filed: 03/11/2002
  • Issued: 09/28/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of effecting the condition of a mitral valve annulus of a heart, the method including the steps of:

  • providing a mitral valve annulus therapy device including an elongated member that is flexible when placed in the heart in a first orientation and relatively inflexible when rotated into a second orientation;

    advancing the device into the coronary sinus of the heart with the device in the first orientation until the device is adjacent the mitral valve annulus within the coronary sinus; and

    rotating the device into the second orientation.

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