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Blood flow controlling apparatus

  • US 9,498,330 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2014
  • Issued: 11/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for treating a mitral valve in need thereof, the method comprising:

  • inserting a delivery catheter using a guidewire through a surgical access through a chest of a patient and through a left ventricular wall of a heart into a left ventricle;

    advancing, through the delivery catheter and into the left ventricle, a valve member of a repair device in a radially compressed state, the valve member including a plurality of pericardium flaps movable between an open state and a closed state in response to blood flow, the pericardium flaps in close contact with each other, the repair device further comprising an anchor member and a connecting member, the connecting member including a first end-portion and a second end-portion, the first end-portion coupled to the valve member, the connecting member including a flexible section, the anchor member including a disk-shaped element;

    positioning the valve portion to contact native leaflets of a mitral valve with the second end-portion of the connecting member extending through the left ventricular wall;

    adjusting the flexible section of the connecting member;

    contacting the disk-shaped element of the anchor with an external left-ventricular wall at or near an apex of the heart;

    securing the disk-shaped element of the anchor member to the second end-portion of the connecting member; and

    removing the delivery catheter.

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