Device for Heart Repair
AssigneeCardiomech AS
InventorsNikolai HIORTH, Hans Emil HIORTH
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Abstract
An anchor (9) for implantation in body tissue (26) to hold a line (14) comprises a number of hooks (62) for engagement with the body tissue (26) and having a folded position and an unfolded position, wherein the anchor (9) is made of an elastic material such that it can be elastically deformed into the folded position by application of a constraining force, and will return to the unfolded position when no constraining force is applied, and wherein the hooks (62) are formed with openings (64, 66) along their length, wherein the openings (64, 66) in the hooks (62) comprise slits extending along some or all of the length of the hooks (62).
Claims23
An anchor for implantation in body tissue to hold a line, the anchor comprising a number of hooks for engagement with the body tissue and having a folded position and an unfolded position, wherein the anchor is made of an elastic material such that it can be elastically deformed into the folded position by application of a constraining force, and will return to the unfolded position when no constraining force is applied, and wherein the hooks are formed with openings along their length, wherein the openings in the hooks comprise slits extending along some or all of the length of the hooks.
An anchor as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the anchor is formed from a tube that has been cut to provide tines extending from one end of the tube, with these tines then having been curved and heat set to form the hooks.
An anchor as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the anchor includes a locking mechanism arranged to clamp a line when no force is applied to the locking mechanism.
A catheter device for implanting an artificial chordae line into the body, the catheter device comprising an anchor as claimed in any preceding claim with the anchor being a leaflet anchor or a papillary anchor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.