Patent ID: 9414920
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method of treatment of abnormal valve cusp syndrome, the method comprising: excising one or two abnormal valve cusps selected from the group of left coronary cusp, right coronary cusp and noncoronary cusp, without excising a remaining valve cusp or valve cusps that can function normally; inserting a cusp sizer at a portion where the one or two abnormal valve cusps are excised, wherein the cusp sizer comprises a sizer block with an arcuate surface with an angle conforming to the central angle for commissure portions of an aortic valve, the arcuate surface comprising two probe portions disposed on both ends thereof; an upper surface of the sizer block being curved in a concave shape and comprising an index which is a center marker for defining a central point from which stitching is started; measuring the size of the excised valve cusp or valve cusps by: making the sizer block abut the valve annulus of an aorta from which the valve cusp or valve cusps are excised, the central point for the base of the valve cusp between the commissure portions being visible; confirming the two probe portions of the sizer block fit to both of the commissure portions of the excised valve cusp or one of the excised two abnormal valve cusps, thereby reading nominal diameter of the cusp sizer; obtaining a new valve cusp formed of a pericardium by: scribing lines for a cusp shape by drawing along an inner peripheral surface of a scribing portion of a template which relates to the nominal diameter to the pericardium; and cutting the pericardium in accordance with the lined cusp shape; dipping the new valve cusp formed of a pericardium in saline; abutting the cusp sizer having the nominal diameter in a manner that the two commissure portions of the excised valve cusp conforms to the two probe portions of the sizer block; putting a thread to a valve annulus at a position indicated by the index; stitching the central point of the base of the valve cusp; and stitching toward the commissure points from the central point, thereby reconstructing the aortic valve.