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US 6,881,199 B2Granted
Left ventricular conduit with blood vessel graft
AssigneePercardia, Inc.
InventorsPeter J. Wilk, David Y. Phelps, Scott J. Wolf
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Abstract
A method of flowing blood from a heart chamber to a coronary vessel includes providing a conduit with a first end and second end, providing the conduit within a heart wall such that the first end of the conduit is open towards the heart chamber and the second end is open towards the blood vessel, and during diastole, restricting a flow of blood from the coronary vessel to the heart chamber via the natural valve.
Claims19
A method of flowing blood from a heart chamber to a coronary vessel, the method comprising:
- providing a conduit with a first end and a second end;
- providing a natural valve;
- placing the conduit within a heart wall such that the first end of the conduit is open towards the heart chamber and the second end is open towards the blood vessel;
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- during diastole, restricting a flow of blood from the coronary vessel to the heart chamber via the natural valve.
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A bypass system for implantation in a body of a patient, the system comprising:
- a tube having a first end and a second end and being configured to be implanted in a heart wall such that the first end is open towards a heart chamber and the second end is open towards a coronary vessel, the tube being further configured to permit blood to flow therethrough from the heart chamber to the coronary vessel;
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- a natural valve configured to restrict blood flow from the coronary vessel to the heart chamber during diastole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.