Patent ID: 8827892

Claim:
A method for treating a chamber of a patient's heart having a myocardial rupture or septal defect, comprising: identifying a region of the chamber of the patient's heart exhibiting the myocardial rupture or septal defect; delivering a device having a reinforced membrane to the patient's heart chamber exhibiting the myocardial rupture or septal defect, the device being delivered to the patient's heart chamber in an unexpanded configuration and the reinforced membrane having a distal facing side and a proximal facing side; and deploying the device in the chamber of the patient's heart by expanding the device to a deployed configuration within the heart chamber and with the distal facing side of the reinforced membrane facing the region of the chamber of the patient's heart exhibiting the myocardial rupture or septal defect, wherein the device remains entirely within the chamber of the patient's heart; and isolating a portion of the chamber having the myocardial rupture or septal defect from a remainder of the chamber.