Rapid deployment prosthetic heart valves

• US 8,911,493 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
• Original Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
• Inventors: Rowe, Stanton J., Wood, Larry L., Bourang, Henry, Bakis, George, Bash, Assaf, Keidar, Yaron, Spenser, Benjamin, Benichou, Netanel
• Primary Examiner(s): STEWART, JASON-DENNIS NEILKEN
• Application Number:
  US13/954,822
• Publication Number:
  US 20130317598A1
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 623 124- 126, 623 21- 219
• US Class Current: 623/2.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2409 Support rings therefor, e.g. for connecting valves to tissue annuloplasty rings A61F2/2442
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2412 with soft flexible valve members, e.g. tissue valves shaped like natural valves check valves with flexible valve members in general F16K15/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2418 Scaffolds therefor, e.g. support stents
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2427 Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2445 Annuloplasty rings in direct contact with the valve annulus
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/90 characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0008 Fixation appliances for connecting prostheses to the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0016 with sharp anchoring protrusions, e.g. barbs, pins, spikes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0025 Connections or couplings between prosthetic parts, e.g. between modular parts; Connecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0041 using additional screws, bolts, dowels or rivets, e.g. connecting screws
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0066 stapled
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0075 sutured, ligatured or stitched, retained or tied with a rope, string, thread, wire or cable
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0083 using hook and loop-type fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0054 V-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0067 conical
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0078 hyperboloidal
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/006 modular
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0098 radio-opaque, e.g. radio-opaque markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 27/3625 Vascular tissue, e.g. heart valves

Abstract

A heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The prosthetic valve comprises a support structure that is deployed at a treatment site. The prosthetic valve further comprises a valve member configured to be quickly connected to the support structure. The support structure may take the form of a stent that is expanded at the site of a native valve. If desired, the native leaflets may remain and the stent may be used to hold the native valve open. In this case, the stent may be balloon expandable and configured to resist the powerful recoil force of the native leaflets. The support structure is provided with a coupling means for attachment to the valve member, thereby fixing the position of the valve member in the body. The valve member may be expandable or a non-expandable type.

Claims

1. A prosthetic heart valve, comprising:

a non-expandable/non-collapsible prosthetic heart valve member having a sewing ring on an inflow end;

an expandable anchoring member sized to contact a heart valve annulus in an expanded state and being connected to the sewing ring.

2. The heart valve of claim 1, wherein the anchoring member comprises a tubular structure having connectors adapted to engage the sewing ring.

3. The heart valve of claim 2, wherein the connectors comprise prongs that change shape and engage the sewing ring.

4. The heart valve of claim 2, wherein the prongs are shaped to wrap around the sewing ring.

5. The heart valve of claim 1, wherein the anchoring member comprises a stent having a wider outflow end than an inflow end, and wherein the valve sewing ring is sized to fit within the outflow end of the stent.

6. The heart valve of claim 1, wherein the anchoring member comprises a tubular structure having a suture-permeable fixation ring attached thereto, wherein the valve member connects to the anchoring member via sutures looped between the valve sewing ring and the fixation ring.