Patent · US Expired

Low profile prosthetic xenograft heart valve

US4388735A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 3, 1980
Grant dateJun 21, 1983
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Expiry dateNov 3, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S623/90
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Prosthetic heart valves comprising an annular, right cylindrical, metal stent covered with fabric to which a glutaraldehyde-stabilized pericardial valving element formed of three leaflets, each having a plateau on a truncated triangle extending higher at the center than at the edges, and formed as a cylinder having a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the stent, and having a low profile is disclosed.

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