Patent ID: 9125739
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61L,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An assembly to treat a native heart valve in a patient, the assembly for use in combination with a guidewire, the assembly comprising: a prosthetic heart valve including: a delivery system including a pusher member and a moveable sheath, the pusher member including a guidewire lumen, wherein the pusher member is disposed within a lumen of the moveable sheath, wherein the prosthetic heart valve is collapsed onto the pusher member to reside in a collapsed configuration on the pusher member and is restrained in the collapsed configuration by the moveable sheath, wherein a distal end of the prosthetic heart valve is located at a distal end of the moveable sheath, and wherein the valve means resides entirely within the inner channel of the stent member in said collapsed configuration and is configured to continue to reside entirely within the inner channel of the stent member upon deployment in the patient.