GB1264471A - - Google Patents

Abstract

Abstract 1,264,471. Heart valve support frames. HYPODERMIC SERVICES Ltd. 10 April, 1969 [12 Jan., 1968], No. 1977/68. Heading A5R. A support frame for a transplanted or grafted aortic valve comprises a one piece structure including a frusto-conical base 2 of specified internal diameter, and three arms 4, 6, 8 projecting vertically upwardly from the upper surface 2A of the base 2, the arms being unequally spaced around the circumference of the base so that two of the arms are equally spaced from the third, the circumferential distance between the upper extremeties of the two arms being less than that between them and a similar point on the third arm. The included angle of the base is 30 to 60‹. The frame may be of titanium or vitrous carbon covered with a polyester skin, and has a plurality of cutouts 10, 12 to reduce its weight.

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