Patent ID: 7828843

Claim:
An assembly for effecting the condition of a mitral valve annulus of a heart comprising: a guide wire configured to be fed into the coronary sinus of the heart; a resilient mitral valve annulus device configured to be deformed from an unstressed arched configuration and slidingly received on the guide wire and advanced into the coronary sinus of the heart on the guide wire and that reshapes the mitral valve annulus when in the coronary sinus of the heart, and an elongated introducer that is slidingly received on the guide wire proximal to the device, wherein the elongated introducer is configured to advance the mitral valve annulus device along the guidewire, wherein the mitral valve annulus device has opposed ends and includes a guide wire engaging structure at at least one of the opposed ends, and wherein the device includes a proximal end, the introducer includes a distal end, and wherein the assembly further includes a releasable locking mechanism configured to releasably lock the proximal end of the device to the distal end of the introducer.