Delivery Systems And Methods For Transcatheter Prosthetic Valves

A method of implanting a prosthetic mitral valve in a mitral valve annulus of a heart of a patient, the method comprising:

• loading the prosthetic mitral valve into a delivery device in a collapsed condition;
• delivering the prosthetic mitral valve to a left atrium of the patient through an atrial septal wall separating the left atrium from a right atrium of the heart of the patient;
• deploying the prosthetic mitral valve into the mitral valve annulus of the heart of the patient by allowing the prosthetic mitral valve to transition from the collapsed condition to an expanded condition within the mitral valve annulus;
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• without piercing an exterior wall of the heart, anchoring the prosthetic mitral valve to a structure of the heart with an anchoring tether.