US 11,690,712 B2
Clip-secured implant for heart valve
Gil Hacohen, Ramat Gan (IL)
Assigned to CARDIOVALVE LTD., Or Yehuda (IL)
Filed by CARDIOVALVE LTD., Or Yehuda (IL)
Filed on May 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/881,350.
Application 16/881,350 is a continuation of application No. 16/460,313, filed on Jul. 2, 2019, granted, now 10,695,173.
Application 16/460,313 is a continuation of application No. 16/045,059, filed on Jul. 25, 2018, granted, now 10,376,361.
Application 16/045,059 is a continuation of application No. 15/213,791, filed on Jul. 19, 2016, granted, now 10,245,143.
Application 15/213,791 is a continuation of application No. 14/237,264, abandoned, previously published as PCT/IL2012/000292, filed on Aug. 5, 2012.
Application 14/237,264 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/412,814, filed on Mar. 6, 2012, granted, now 8,852,272.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/588,892, filed on Jan. 20, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/555,160, filed on Nov. 3, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/537,276, filed on Sep. 21, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/525,281, filed on Aug. 19, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/515,372, filed on Aug. 5, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2020/0330221 A1, Oct. 22, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/848 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/2418 (2013.01) [A61F 2/246 (2013.01); A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2436 (2013.01); A61F 2/2439 (2013.01); A61F 2/2433 (2013.01); A61F 2/2442 (2013.01); A61F 2/848 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0008 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0025 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0091 (2013.01); A61F 2230/005 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0013 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0054 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0078 (2013.01); A61F 2250/006 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0015 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0071 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for use at a valve of a heart of a subject, the method comprising:
transluminally advancing, to the heart, an implant including:
a primary structural element, a central longitudinal axis of the implant passing through the primary structural element, and
two clips coupled to the primary structural element, on opposite lateral sides of the primary structural element from each other, each of the clips having a first clip element and a second clip element; and
coupling the implant to leaflets of the valve:
by, for each of the clips, closing the clip around a central part of a respective leaflet of the valve by causing deflection between the first clip element and the second clip element, thereby sandwiching the central part of the respective leaflet between the first clip element and the second clip element, and
such that the leaflets form a double orifice configuration, with the primary structural element disposed between the central parts of the leaflets and a proximal-most end of the primary structural element disposed entirely proximal to the entire first clip element and the entire second clip element of each clip.