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US 2025/0090312 A1Published application
Prosthetic valves with information indicators
AssigneeEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
InventorsDavid Maimon, Tamir S. Levi, Nikolai Gurovich, Karin Lavon, Martyn Rhys Thomas
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to prosthetic valves that include information indicators which can indicate suitable information associated with a previously implanted prosthetic valve. Such information indicators can be internally formed in relatively wide support posts of mechanically expandable prosthetic valve, or can be externally formed along support posts of mechanically expandable prosthetic valve or vertical struts of balloon expandable prosthetic valves.
Claims15
A prosthetic valve comprising:
- an annular frame movable between a compressed diameter in a radially compressed state and a deployed diameter in a radially expanded state, the frame comprising:
- a plurality of intersecting angled struts and a plurality of vertical struts, wherein each vertical strut extends between a vertical strut inflow end and an opposite vertical strut outflow end, and wherein the plurality of vertical struts comprises:
- a plurality of commissure struts, each commissure strut comprising a commissure window;
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- a plurality of non-commissural vertical struts;
- at least one externally formed information indicator formed along at least one of the vertical struts;
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- a valvular structure mounted within the frame and comprising a plurality of leaflets configured to regulate flow through the prosthetic valve.
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