Patent ID: 6406491
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
A transmyocardial implant for establishing a blood flow path through a myocardium between a heart chamber and a lumen of a coronary vessel, said implant comprising:a hollow rigid conduit having a vessel portion and a myocardial portion, said vessel portion sized to be inserted into said vessel, said myocardial portion sized to extend from the vessel portion and through said myocardium into said chamber; said conduit having open vessel and myocardial ends on respective ones of said vessel and myocardial portions to define a blood flow pathway within an interior of said conduit between said vessel and myocardial ends; said myocardial portion of said conduit formed of a conduit material sufficiently rigid to resist deformation and closure of said pathway in response to contraction of said myocardium; at least a portion of said vessel portion having a radial compliance approximating a radial compliance of said vessel.