Patent ID: 9044320
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A valve prosthesis, comprising: a self-expandable outer stent component including exactly three struts configured for placement between each of three respective portions of a native aortic valve and an aorta wall upon implantation of the valve prosthesis relative to the native aortic valve; a self-expandable inner stent component coupled to the self-expandable outer stent component at a distal end of the outer stent component configured to be positioned farther from a native heart than a proximal end of the outer stent component, at least a portion of the inner stent component being radially inward of the struts, the valve prosthesis configured to receive the three portions of the native aortic valve between the respective three struts and the inner stent component upon implantation of the valve prosthesis relative to the native aortic valve; and a prosthetic valve component coupled to the self-expandable inner stent component.