US 11,925,550 B2
Prosthetic heart valve with reduced stitching
Tomer Saar, Pardes Hanna-Karkur (IL); Michael Bukin, Pardes Hanna (IL); Elena Sherman, Pardes Hana (IL); Alexander Barash, Tzoran (IL); and Yana Mayatskaya, Or-Aqiva (IL)
Assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/694,578.
Application 17/694,578 is a continuation of application No. 16/799,741, filed on Feb. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,273,031.
Application 16/799,741 is a continuation of application No. 15/709,355, filed on Sep. 19, 2017, granted, now 10,575,944, issued on Mar. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/398,439, filed on Sep. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0202568 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2418 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An implantable prosthetic valve that is radially collapsible to a collapsed configuration and radially expandable to an expanded configuration, the prosthetic valve comprising:
an annular frame including a plurality of angled strut members;
a plurality of leaflets disposed within the frame and secured to the frame;
a skirt member secured to the frame, the skirt member disposed about an edge portion of a leaflet of the plurality of leaflets, the skirt member including a plurality of extension portions wrapped around at least one strut member; and
a cord member threaded through at least a portion of the plurality of extension portions in a direction along an axis of the at least one strut member to secure the skirt member to the at least one strut member.