Patent ID: 6951573

Claim:
A prosthetic aortic mechanical valve, comprising a substantially round tubular valve body, which body has a longitudinal axis, an outlet end, a flared inlet end, an inner surface, and an outer surface, said outer surface comprising a semirigid sewing flange and a circumferential groove on said outer surface, said groove lying between and spacing apart said flared inlet end and said semirigid sewing flange; and flow control means within said tubular valve body for intermittently and reversibly sealing across said valve body inner surface to allow substantially unidirectional flow through said tubular valve body from said inlet end to said outlet end; wherein said semirigid sewing flange comprises at least first and second flange portions which are spaced circumferential apart from each other and longitudinally from said flared inlet end, a plurality of said flange portions comprising at least one post for securing sutures, which post is spaced radially from said outer surface to permit the passage of sutures therebetween.