Patent ID: 7488346

Claim:
A method for replacing a native mitral valve and a native aortic valve with a single bioprosthetic graft, said method comprising the steps of: harvesting a homograft that includes both a mitral valve portion and an aortic valve portion; resecting the native mitral and aortic valves from the heart; suturing a biocompatible extension portion to the homograft; suturing a free edge of at least one of an anterior leaflet and a posterior leaflet of the mitral valve portion of the homograft to at least one of a native anterior leaflet and a native posterior leaflet of the native mitral valve with the at least one of the anterior and posterior leaflets being operatively attached to at least one native chordae tendinae through the at least one native anterior and posterior leaflets; suturing the aortic valve portion of the homograft in place of the native aortic valve; and suturing the extension portion to the left atrial wall of the heart to close the left atrial wall.