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Methods and devices for capturing and fixing leaflets in valve repair

  • US 9,044,246 B2
  • Filed: 08/24/2011
  • Issued: 06/02/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A device for repairing a cardiac valve, said device comprising:

  • a flexible interventional catheter adapted to pass from the remote vasculature of a patient to be positioned within a heart of the patient adjacent to the cardiac valve; and

    a capture device on the interventional catheter comprising at least one distal element coupled to the catheter, wherein the distal element is protrudable radially outward and is adapted to press against a downstream surface of at least one leaflet,wherein the interventional catheter further comprises at least one fixation tool for fixing the valve leaflet to a second valve leaflet, andthe fixation tool comprising a guide conduit extending from a distal end of a shaft of the catheter at a terminal end of the catheter and housing a penetrating device which has a suture and an anchor coupled with the suture.

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