US 12,083,010 B2
Method of implanting a spacer body in a mitral valve
Stephen C. Geist, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Robert C. Taft, Orange, CA (US); Travis Zenyo Oba, Yorba Linda, CA (US); Sam Sok, Santa Ana, CA (US); Matthew A. Peterson, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Kevin M. Golemo, Mission Viejo, CA (US); Mark Chau, Aliso Viejo, CA (US); and Seung-Beom Yi, Mission Viejo, CA (US)
Assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/670,449.
Application 16/670,449 is a continuation of application No. 15/259,988, filed on Sep. 8, 2016, granted, now 10,463,481.
Application 15/259,988 is a continuation of application No. 14/171,603, filed on Feb. 3, 2014, granted, now 9,439,763, issued on Sep. 13, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/914,648, filed on Dec. 11, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/760,577, filed on Feb. 4, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2020/0060818 A1, Feb. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2418 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2/2436 (2013.01); A61F 2/2466 (2013.01); A61B 6/4441 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0008 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01); A61F 2230/005 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0054 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0078 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0018 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0029 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0069 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A method of implanting a prosthetic spacer, the method comprising:
delivering the prosthetic spacer to a native mitral valve with a delivery apparatus, wherein the prosthetic spacer comprises a plurality of anchors and a spacer body, wherein the anchors and the spacer body are disposed within a distal end portion of the delivery apparatus, and wherein the anchors are in a delivery configuration;
exposing the anchors of the prosthetic spacer from the distal end portion of the delivery apparatus;
positioning the anchors of the prosthetic spacer on a ventricular side of native mitral valve leaflets;
wherein the delivery apparatus comprises a plurality of anchor spreaders, wherein each anchor spreader is releasably coupled to a respective anchor of the prosthetic spacer;
moving the anchors radially outwardly from the delivery configuration to a leaflet capture configuration; and
moving the anchors radially inwardly such that leaflets of the native mitral valve leaflets are pinched between the anchors and the spacer body.