PERCUTANEOUS SELF-ASSEMBLING MODULE VALVE AND METHODS FOR FOLDING, ASSEMBLING AND DELIVERING Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61F2/24 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine. A module prosthetic valve assembly comprises a number of modules and a self-assembling element each of which has a delivery configuration for being mounted in the delivery device. The number of modules comprises a valve assembly having an unfolded, unassembled delivery configuration. The self-assembling element has the direct delivery configuration parallel to a long axis of the above delivery device, and the pre-set working configuration. The valve assembly is designed to fold and assembly from the delivery configuration into the working configuration by the above self-assembling element after the above delivery device is placed into the body. There are disclosed a prosthetic valve assembly system in the body, a method for folding the module valve delivery device, the self-assembling element, a method for assembling the module valve assembly and a percutaneous module prosthetic valve assembly.

EFFECT: group of inventions provides higher safety of valve replacement procedure.

34 cl, 10 dwg