Patent ID: 11872123
Assignee: GROWNVALVE GMBH
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 16:
17. A method of implanting a cardiac valve prosthesis to an individual in need thereof, the method comprising the following steps:
a) excising or harvesting body tissue from a donor,
b) shaping the body tissue in a shaping process to give the body tissue a shape and size of a cardiac valve of a recipient,
c) fixation and stabilization of the body tissue by a cross-linking agent, thereby preserving the shape given to the body tissue by the shaping process and thus obtaining a cardiac valve prosthesis, and
d) implanting the cardiac valve prosthesis to the recipient, wherein the cardiac valve prosthesis obtained in step c) is sewed in a supporting structure prior to implanting it, and wherein a diameter of the cardiac valve prosthesis obtained in step c) has an oversizing of 10 to 50 % with respect to a diameter of a blood vessel to be treated by the cardiac valve prosthesis when implanted.