US Patent:
20060229708, Oct 12, 2006
Inventors:
Ferolyn Powell - San Francisco CA, US
Troy Thornton - San Francisco CA, US
Eric Goldfarb - San Francisco CA, US
Jan Komtebedde - Los Gatos CA, US
Kent Dell - Redwood City CA, US
Pedro Lucatero - East Palo Alto CA, US
Francisco Valencia - Redwood City CA, US
Murli Srinivasan - Fremont CA, US
Roger Goodgion - San Francisco CA, US
Sandra Saenz - Seattle WA, US
Sylvia Fan - Burlingame CA, US
Sylvester Lucatero - East Palo Alto CA, US
Yen Liao - San Mateo CA, US
John Madden - Redwood City CA, US
Jaime Sarabia - Smyrna GA, US
International Classification:
A61F 2/24
US Classification:
623001240, 600037000, 623002360
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.