Patent ID: 10864078

Abstract:
Prosthetic valves and methods of use of prosthetic valves may be provided. In one implementation, a method of implanting a prosthetic valve within a native heart valve may be provided. The method may include delivering the prosthetic valve into a heart chamber while the prosthetic valve is constrained in a radially-contracted delivery configuration. The method may also include unconstraining ventricular tissue anchors and atrial tissue anchors of the prosthetic valve while maintaining an annular valve body of the prosthetic valve in the delivery configuration. The method may also include unconstraining the annular valve body from the delivery configuration while the unconstrained atrial tissue anchors and ventricular tissue anchors are positioned within an atrium and a ventricle, respectively. Unconstraining the annular valve body may decrease a longitudinal distance between the ventricular tissue anchors and atrial tissue anchors to secure the prosthetic valve within the native heart valve.