Patent ID: 11918467
Assignee: FONDAZIONE RI.MED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. An annuloplasty prosthesis device, suitable for native annulus remodeling, comprising a body having a shape of at least one portion of a ring defining a longitudinal direction (X-X), coincident with or locally parallel to the longitudinal development direction of said body, wherein:
said body comprises a first arcuate segment and at least one second segment, opposite said first arcuate segment;
said first arcuate segment is flexible in a first direction (Y-Y), locally transverse to the longitudinal direction (X-X) along said first arcuate segment, so as to be deformable in bending along said first direction (Y-Y);
said first arcuate segment defines a lying plane (X-Y) substantially parallel to both the longitudinal direction (X-X) and the first direction (Y-Y);
said at least one second segment is more rigid under flexion than said first arcuate segment in said lying plane (X-Y); and
said second segment is flexible in a second direction (Z-Z), transverse to the lying plane (X-Y), so as to be deformable in bending along said second direction (Z-Z), providing directional selective flexibility to said annuloplasty prosthesis device for the purpose of guiding the native annulus remodeling;
wherein a cross-section of said first arcuate segment and a cross-section of said second segment have same shape and area measurement and are mutually inclined by a twist angle (β).