US 11,864,996 B2
Prosthetic valve with protective sleeve around an outlet rim
Ilia Hariton, Zichron Yaackov (IL); Meni Iamberger, Kfar Saba (IL); Aviram Baum, Tel Aviv (IL); and Boaz Harari, Ganey Tikva (IL)
Assigned to CARDIOVALVE LTD., Or Yehuda (IL)
Filed by CARDIOVALVE LTD., Or Yehuda (IL)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/114,771.
Application 17/114,771 is a continuation of application No. 16/135,770, filed on Sep. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,905,548.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/560,384, filed on Sep. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0085457 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2427 (2013.01) [A61F 2/243 (2013.01); A61F 2/2436 (2013.01); A61F 2/2445 (2013.01); A61F 2/2454 (2013.01); A61F 2/2463 (2013.01); A61F 2/246 (2013.01); A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2466 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0008 (2013.01); A61F 2250/007 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An expandable prosthetic valve for implantation within a native heart valve, the prosthetic valve comprising:
an expandable annular valve body having:
an atrial inlet opening,
a ventricular outlet opening, and
a plurality of tissue anchors extending from the annular valve body; and
a flexible annular protective sleeve positioned over the rim of the valve body outlet opening and affixed to the valve body outlet opening;
wherein the protective sleeve is situated over a skirt layer extending about a circumference of the valve body and a thickness of the protective sleeve is larger than a thickness of the skirt layer.