US 11,712,336 B1
Prosthetic heart valves
Lucas Tradd Schneider, Champlin, MN (US); Gunnar Paul Askegaard, Brainerd, MN (US); and Ramji Iyer, Plymouth, MN (US)
Assigned to Laplace Interventional Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed by Laplace Interventional Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/986,597.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/390,810, filed on Jul. 20, 2022.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2418 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of deploying a prosthetic heart valve, the method comprising:
engaging the prosthetic heart valve with anatomical structures of a native tricuspid valve, wherein the prosthetic heart valve comprises:
a main body comprising an inflow end portion and an outflow end portion;
an occluder extending between the inflow end and outflow end portions and comprising valve leaflets attached to the main body in an arrangement that: (i) allows blood flow through the occluder in a direction from the inflow end portion toward the outflow end portion along a central axis of the occluder and (ii) prevents blood flow through the occluder in a direction from the outflow end portion toward the inflow end portion; and
a lateral anterior flap extending from the outflow end portion in a first direction that is transverse to the central axis,
wherein the lateral anterior flap extends into a right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), and
wherein an edge portion of the lateral anterior flap extends along and abuts against a lateral wall of the RVOT such that there is lateral wall tissue present both superior to and inferior to the edge portion of the lateral anterior flap to provide anchoring.