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Methods and apparatus for cardiac valve repair

  • US 20050033446A1
  • Filed: 04/07/2004
  • Published: 02/10/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1999
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of modifying a heart valve of a patient, comprising:

  • advancing a catheter through the patient'"'"'s vasculature into the heart from a vascular access point remote from the heart, the catheter having a structure releasably coupled thereto;

    deploying the structure from the catheter on or near an annulus of the heart valve, the structure adapted to modify the annulus so as to reduce regurgitation in the heart valve; and

    in combination with deploying the structure from the catheter on or near the annulus of the heart valve, holding leaflets of the heart valve together so as to reduce regurgitation in the heart valve.

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