Stentless atrioventricular heart valve fabricated from a singular flat membrane

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PATENT NO 6830586
APP PUB NO 20030163195A1
SERIAL NO

10086100

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A stentless atrioventricular valve intended for attaching to a circumferential valve ring and papillary muscles of a patient comprising a singular flexible membrane of tissue or synthetic biomaterial, the valve having a sewing ring, an anterior cusp and a posterior cusp, wherein the anterior cusp and said posterior cusp are an integral part of a continuum from the singular membrane without sutured commissure between remote ends of the cusps and wherein texture elements secured at edge portions of the cusps configured to extend the texture elements for connection to papillary muscles in a ventricle cavity when the sewing ring is sutured to an atrioventricular junction of a patient's heart.

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MEDTRONIC 3F THERAPEUTICS INC1 JENNER #100 IRVINE CA 92618

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Nguyen, Than Placentia, CA 59 13510
Quijano, Rodolfo C Laguna Hills, CA 58 11469
Tu, Hosheng Newport Coast, CA 343 40637

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