Patent ID: 8568474

Claim:
A method of restoring a defective heart valve of a patient, the method comprising: manipulating a delivery device to percutaneously deliver a stented prosthetic heart valve in a compressed arrangement to an implantation site of the defective heart valve, the stented prosthetic heart valve having a stent frame to which a valve structure is attached, the stent frame being configured to radially self-expand from the compressed arrangement; operating the delivery device to release the stented prosthetic heart valve, including permitting the stent frame to self-expand from the compressed arrangement toward a deployed arrangement in which the stented prosthetic heart valve is implanted within the defective heart valve in an initial state, the implanted prosthetic heart valve defining a longitudinal length; percutaneously delivering a post-dilatation balloon in a deflated state to the implantation site, the balloon including a compliant segment, the compliant segment having a longitudinal length less than the longitudinal length of the implanted prosthetic heart valve; arranging the compliant segment within a region of the implanted prosthetic heart valve to be remodeled, the region to be remodeled having a longitudinal length less than the longitudinal length of the implanted prosthetic heart valve; inflating the post-dilatation balloon such that the compliant segment expands and contacts the implanted prosthetic heart valve in the region to be remodeled; and expanding the region to be remodeled via continued inflation of the compliant segment to alter a shape of the implanted prosthetic heart valve to a remodeled state.