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Intra-annular mounting frame for aortic valve repair

  • US 8,163,011 B2
  • Filed: 05/03/2007
  • Issued: 04/24/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An intra-annular mounting frame for an aortic valve having native aortic cusps, comprising:

  • a frame body including native leaflet reorienting curvatures and interconnecting points and posts;

    the curvatures shaped to be received inside the valve below the native aortic cusps and to reorient the native aortic cusps within the aortic valve;

    each of the curvatures extending only concavely upward from a reference latitudinal plane tangential to each curvature'"'"'s base;

    the interconnecting points connecting the curvatures to form the mounting frame; and

    the posts extending radially outward from a central longitudinal axis of the frame.

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