Patent ID: 7384389

Claim:
A method for transferring oxygenated blood from a low pressure chamber to a high pressure chamber, wherein the low pressure chamber is the left auricle and the high pressure chamber is the aorta, the method comprising: placing a conduit between the left auricle and the aorta of a patient; attaching a prosthetic valve at the aortic end of the conduit, wherein the valve comprises an aileron pivotally attached to an inferior mobile leaflet; filling the conduit with oxygenated blood from the left auricle, wherein the blood is blocked from moving into the aorta by the original position of the inferior mobile leaflet; using the downward systolic force of blood in the aorta to contact and push the aileron into the lumen of the aorta, wherein the pivot of the aileron decreases the internal area of the aorta, and wherein the pivot of the aileron causes the attached inferior mobile leaflet to pivot into the conduit and open a lumen between the conduit and the aorta; and creating a Venturi effect in the aorta by the decrease in area, wherein the Venturi effect allows the oxygenated blood in the conduit to flow from the low pressure chamber into the high pressure chamber.