Patent ID: 9498330
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for treating a mitral valve in need thereof, the method comprising: inserting a delivery catheter using a guidewire through a surgical access through a chest of a patient and through a left ventricular wall of a heart into a left ventricle; advancing, through the delivery catheter and into the left ventricle, a valve member of a repair device in a radially compressed state, the valve member including a plurality of pericardium flaps movable between an open state and a closed state in response to blood flow, the pericardium flaps in close contact with each other, the repair device further comprising an anchor member and a connecting member, the connecting member including a first end-portion and a second end-portion, the first end-portion coupled to the valve member, the connecting member including a flexible section, the anchor member including a disk-shaped element; positioning the valve portion to contact native leaflets of a mitral valve with the second end-portion of the connecting member extending through the left ventricular wall; adjusting the flexible section of the connecting member; contacting the disk-shaped element of the anchor with an external left-ventricular wall at or near an apex of the heart; securing the disk-shaped element of the anchor member to the second end-portion of the connecting member; and removing the delivery catheter.