Heart valve prosthesis with improved bi-leaflet pivot design

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PATENT NO 5192313
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07896831

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A bi-leaflet heart valve having an annular body and a pair of leaflets. The leaflets pivot around improved ears, whose motion is constrained by generally triangular recesses. The triangular recesses have a pivotal vertex in proximity to a centerline of the annular base and on the upstream side of the heart valve. Opposite the pivotal vertex is a slightly concave base. An upstream wall of the recess is convex.

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CARBOMEDICS INC1300 EAST ANDERSON LANE AUSTIN TX 78752

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Budd, John C Austin, TX 2 138
Campbell, Louis A Austin, TX 116 7605

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