Methods, systems and devices for cardiac valve repair

US10667911B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• EVALVE, INC. · US

Inventors

• Ted Ketai · San Francisco, US
• Chris P. Bender · Oakland, US
• Steven A. Tyler · Portola Valley, US
• Troy L. Thornton · San Francisco, US
• Eric Goldfarb · Belmont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 2, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2220/0016
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.