Prosthetic heart valve with suture loop preventing member

A prosthetic heart valve system, comprising:

• a prosthetic heart valve having an inflow side and an outflow side, and a flow axis therethrough, the heart valve further comprising a cloth-covered base at the inflow side, a plurality of circumferentially-spaced cloth-covered commissure posts extending away from the base toward the outflow side and terminating in commissure post tips, and valve leaflets secured to the commissure posts to permit one-way flow through the heart valve along the axis;
• a valve holder removably secured to the inflow side of the heart valve;
• an anti-loop wire made of a flexible material extending from a first free end attached to the valve holder, through the cloth-covered base, and passing through the cloth-covering or an attached loop extending from the cloth-covering at each commissure post tip and at least one commissure post tip twice, the anti-loop wire passing between adjacent commissure post tips to form a complete coiled loop around all of the commissure post tips and terminating in a second free end located at a commissure post tip or between two commissure post tips;
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• wherein the anti-loop wire material is sufficiently flexible to be removed from the heart valve without damaging the heart valve by removing the valve holder from the heart valve yet rigid enough to retain the coiled loop shape when coming in contact with sutures used to secure the heart valve to a heart valve annulus.