Device and a method for augmenting heart function
AssigneeSyntach AG
InventorJan Otto Solem
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Abstract
A device, a kit and a method are presented for permanently augmenting the pump function of the left heart. The basis for the presented innovation is an augmentation of the physiologically up and down movement of the mitral valve during each heart cycle. By means of catheter technique, minimal surgery, or open heart surgery implants are inserted into the left ventricle, the mitral valve annulus, the left atrium and adjacent tissue in order to augment the natural up and down movement of the mitral valve and thereby increasing the left ventricular diastolic filling and the piston effect of the closed mitral valve when moving towards the apex of said heart in systole and/or away from said apex in diastole.
Claims10
A medical device adapted to enhance intra-cardiac blood circulation of a heart of a patient by assisting pump action of said heart, said device including an annulus attachment for fixating an end of said device to a cardiac valve annulus, said annulus attachment connected to an axial actuator via a rod that extends from the annulus attachment towards a coaptation line of said cardiac valve, and said rod crosses the cardiac valve at said coaptation line to apply a mechanical supporting force to the valve annulus during at least a portion of systole for augmenting the natural pumping force of the heart, and/or during at least a portion of diastole for augmenting a natural filling of the ventricle of said heart.
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