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Device for the implantation and fixation of prosthetic valves

  • US 20070100440A1
  • Filed: 10/30/2006
  • Published: 05/03/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device for the transvascular implantation and fixation of prosthetic heart valves having a self-expanding heart valve stent introducible through a blood vessel of a patient which exhibits a prosthetic heart valve at its proximal end, wherein the device furthermore comprises a self-expanding positioning stent introducible into the pockets of a patient'"'"'s diseased heart valve which is configured separately from the heart valve stent, and the positioning stent and the heart valve stent are configured so as to respectively interact in their expanded states such that the heart valve stent is held by the positioning stent in a position within the ventricular outflow tract and the arteries close to the patient'"'"'s heart predefinable by the positioning stent relative the heart valve.

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