Patent ID: 7833268
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. A method for percutaneously implanting an aortic valve prosthesis in a beating heart having a septum, left and right atriums, left and right ventricles, a diseased aortic valve, and descending and ascending aortas associated with the beating heart, comprising the steps of: percutaneously delivering a portion of a first catheter into the left atrium of the beating heart, the first catheter being associated with a pump; percutaneously delivering a second catheter into a portion of the descending aorta, the second catheter being associated with the pump; percutaneously delivering a third catheter into the ascending aorta, the third catheter having an aortic valve prosthesis associated with the third catheter; disposing the aortic valve prosthesis within the diseased aortic valve and implanting the aortic valve prosthesis within the diseased aortic valve; and pumping oxygenated blood from the left atrium into the descending aorta, during a period of time while the aortic valve prosthesis is being implanted within the diseased aortic valve.