US 11,872,125 B2
Prosthetic heart valve
Nikolai Gurovich, Hadera (IL); Michael Bukin, Pardes Hanna (IL); Elena Sherman, Pardes Hana (IL); Tamir S. Levi, Zikhron Yaakov (IL); Ziv Yohanan, Kfar Hahoresh (IL); Gil Senesh, Adi (IL); Dikla Kersh, Karkur (IL); Alexey Tsypenyuk, Draper, UT (US); Waina Michelle Chu, Tustin, CA (US); and Alexander Barash, Tzoran (IL)
Assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/659,577.
Application 17/659,577 is a continuation of application No. 17/316,885, filed on May 11, 2021.
Application 17/316,885 is a continuation of application No. 15/664,430, filed on Jul. 31, 2017, granted, now 11,096,781, issued on Aug. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/369,678, filed on Aug. 1, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0241071 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/2418 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2433 (2013.01); A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0023 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0052 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0003 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0039 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00017 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00029 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00059 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
a delivery catheter comprising a balloon; and
an implantable prosthetic heart valve, comprising:
a plastically expandable and compressible unitary frame having an inflow end portion and an outflow end portion, the frame comprising first, second, and third rows of angled struts that define two circumferentially extending rows of diamond-shaped cells that extend continuously around the frame, and
a valvular structure comprising a plurality of leaflets formed of pericardial tissue, each leaflet having an upper edge, first and second opposing commissure tabs, and a cusp edge portion, wherein each commissure tab is secured to an adjacent commissure tab of an adjacent leaflet to form a plurality of commissures that are connected to the outflow end portion of the frame;
wherein the cusp edge portion of each leaflet is connected to the frame by an inner skirt that is connected to and disposed between the frame and the cusp edge portions of the leaflets, the inner skirt being connected to the frame via sutures that extend around consecutive angled struts in the first, the second, and the third rows of angled struts such that the sutures extend around at least one strut in each of the first, the second, and the third rows of angled struts; and
wherein the implantable prosthetic heart valve can be mounted around the balloon in a compressed configuration and radially expanded to an expanded configuration with the balloon inside a patient's body.