Passive girdle for heart ventricle for therapeutic aid to patients having ventricular dilatation
US6224540A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 13, 1998 |
| Grant date | May 1, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 13, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S623/904
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A passive girdle is wrapped around a heart muscle which has dilatation of a ventricle to conform to the size and shape of the heart and to constrain the dilatation during diastole. The girdle is formed of a material and structure that does not expand away from the heart but may, over an extended period of time be decreased in size as dilatation decreases.
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