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Segmented ring placement

  • US 8,926,695 B2
  • Filed: 12/05/2007
  • Issued: 01/06/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for repairing a valve of a body of a patient, the valve including an annulus and at least first and second leaflets, comprising:

  • at least a first segment and a second segment of an annuloplasty structure, the first segment being shaped to define at least one first lumen, and the second segment being shaped to define at least one second lumen that is separate from the at least one first lumen of the first segment; and

    at least a first and a second control wire, wherein;

    a first slidable coupling arrangement, coupling the first control wire and the first segment via the at least one first lumen, and a second slidable coupling arrangement, coupling the second control wire and the second segment via the at least one second lumen, facilitate control by the control wires of relative dispositions of the first and second segments, at least in part in response to an application of pulling forces to the control wires.

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