Methods and systems for assisting or repairing prosthetic cardiac valves (US Patent 11419719)

Patent number: 11419719 Kind code: B2 Granted: 2022-08-23 Filed: 2019-08-01 Inventors: Jury Schewel (Hamburg, DE); Karl-Heinz Kuck (Hamburg, DE); Tom Saul (Moss Beach, CA, US) Assignees: MTEx Cardio AG (Ptaffikon, CH) CPC: A61F 2/2442; A61F 2/2445; A61F 2/2454; A61F 2/246; A61F 2/2463

Abstract

A prosthetic valve coaptation assist device includes an anchor and a single valve assist leaflet. The anchor may be a supporting ring frame, brace or arc structure and will usually be radially