US 12,109,113 B2
Prosthetic heart valve devices with tethered anchors and associated systems and methods
Mike Krivoruchko, Forestville, CA (US)
Assigned to Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed by Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/323,481.
Application 17/323,481 is a continuation of application No. 16/293,557, filed on Mar. 5, 2019, granted, now 11,033,390.
Application 16/293,557 is a continuation of application No. 15/489,889, filed on Apr. 18, 2017, granted, now 10,265,172, issued on Apr. 23, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/329,400, filed on Apr. 29, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0267760 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2457 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2427 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0417 (2013.01); A61F 2/2481 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0008 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heart valve device for implantation in a native mitral valve of a heart, the heart valve device comprising:
a valve support for carrying a prosthetic valve, wherein the valve support is configured to be implanted at an annulus of the native mitral valve;
at least one elongated flexible member extending from the valve support in a ventricular direction and configured to extend through an opening in a left ventricle of an apical portion of the heart; and
an anchor coupled to the valve support via the at least one elongated flexible member, wherein the anchor is sized and shaped such that when deployed the anchor is sized and shaped to wrap around an exterior area of an apical portion of the heart to inhibit expansion of the apical portion of the left ventricle.