Patent ID: 9572664
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A medical assembly for replacing a native heart valve of a patient, the assembly comprising: a radially expandable and collapsible prosthetic heart valve comprising a self-expandable stent body and a plurality of leaflet-forming membranes, the stent body having a proximal end and a distal end; a deployment mechanism configured to deploy the prosthetic heart valve within the native heart valve of the patient, the prosthetic heart valve being coupled to the deployment mechanism; and a storage container; wherein the prosthetic heart valve and the deployment mechanism are disposed in the storage container with the prosthetic heart valve in a radially expanded configuration, and the prosthetic heart valve is compressible from the radially expanded configuration to a radially contracted configuration with the deployment mechanism coupled to the prosthetic heart valve; wherein the prosthetic heart valve comprises a mechanical locking device configured to lock the prosthetic heart valve in a final expanded configuration inside the patient.