Patent ID: 11872122
Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A prosthetic valve comprising:
a support structure having a longitudinal axis and defining a leaflet attachment zone between a pair of adjacent commissure posts, the pair of adjacent commissure posts defining a chord length; and
a leaflet coupled to and extending from the leaflet attachment zone, the leaflet having leaflet sides, a leaflet base, and a leaflet free edge opposite the leaflet base, the leaflet base and the leaflet sides being coupled to the support structure, the leaflet including a base segment defining a straight line that is shorter than the chord length and is adjacent to the leaflet base, the leaflet operable to bend about the base segment during opening-closing cycles associated with blood pressure differentials across the prosthetic valve, the prosthetic valve being operable to be reduced in diameter for transcatheter delivery and radially expanded for deployment.