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US 2014/0005779 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for heart valve surgery
AssigneeCardica, Inc.
InventorBernard A. Hausen
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Abstract
A method for heart valve surgery may include providing a cardiac valve ring and suture loops connected to the cardiac valve ring, accessing a valve annulus of the heart of the patient, stapling at least one of the sutures loop to the valve annulus, and parachuting the cardiac valve ring down the suture to the valve annulus after the stapling. The cardiac valve ring may be an annuloplasty ring, a replacement heart valve, or other medical device.
Claims10
A surgical apparatus, comprising:
- a cardiac valve ring;
- and
- a plurality of suture loops connected to said cardiac valve ring.
A surgical apparatus, comprising:
- a cardiac valve ring having a plurality of unidirectional suture holding features associated therewith;
- and
- a plurality of suture loops connected to said cardiac valve ring;
- wherein each said suture loop is formed from a single length of suture independent from the other said suture loops;
- and wherein each suture passes through at least one said unidirectional suture holding features in said cardiac valve ring.
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