Patent ID: 11883284
Assignee: AORTIC INNOVATIONS, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 19:
20. A method of deploying a transcatheter aortic valve assembly, wherein the method comprises:
endovascularly positioning a guide wire through the transfemoral artery into the aortic valve of a patient;
endovascularly deploying advancing the transcatheter aortic valve assembly through the transfemoral artery of a patient;
wherein the transcatheter aortic valve assembly includes:
a covering housing a prosthetic heart valve, wherein the covering extends around the prosthetic heart valve for providing sealing to prosthetic heart valve leaflets;
a metallic support being secured to the covering by a plurality of stitches; and
a sealing material positioned externally to the support for providing sealing between the support and a patient's anatomical wall to prevent paravalvular leaks,
wherein the sealing material includes a plurality of radially extending fibers that extend outwardly away of the support,
wherein the covering is made of a polymer,
wherein the sealing material is free of an outer graft covering between the fibers and the support;

inflating a balloon assembly to expand the transcatheter aortic valve assembly to compress the radially extending fibers into native valve leaflets of the aorta to create a paravalvular seal.