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US 2026/0283793 A1Published application
Device and method with reduced pacemaker rate in heart valve replacement
AssigneeJenaValve Technology, Inc.
InventorsStefan SCHRECK, Hussain S. RANGWALA, Payam SAFFARI
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to heart valve prostheses with the reduced need of pacemaker implantation and improved means for positioning the replacement heart valve.
Claims1
A heart valve prosthesis, comprising a stent component, a valve component, a seal, and at least one locator for positioning the prosthesis at a target site of an endogenous heart valve, wherein the prosthesis is expandable from a non-expanded state to an expanded state, and wherein in the expanded state a shortest distance between a proximal end of the locator and a proximal end of the prosthesis is less than 10 mm.
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