Patent ID: 8376979
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method of placing a left ventricle outflow tract of a patient's heart into fluid communication with an ascending aorta through an artificial fluid flow path, the method comprising the steps of: arranging a guidewire within a patient's body, the guidewire being a compound guidewire having proximal and distal compound guidewire ends longitudinally spaced by a compound guidewire body, the distal guidewire end being arranged in a left ventricle of the heart, the proximal guidewire end being arranged in the ascending aorta, and the guidewire body, extending longitudinally between the distal and proximal guidewire ends, located at least partially in a right atrium of the heart, the arrangement of the guidewire within the patient's body including the steps of providing a conduit having longitudinally spaced first and second conduit ends in mutual fluid communication through a tubular conduit body; advancing the conduit along the guidewire from a chosen one of the proximal and distal guidewire ends toward the other one of the proximal and distal guidewire ends; anchoring the first conduit end in the left ventricle; and anchoring the second conduit end in the ascending aorta to provide the artificial fluid flow path.