Textile Heart Valve Prosthesis

• Innovative prosthetic device could prevent the drawbacks of the currently implanted transcatheter heart valves.
• Techology could be adapted to non critical patients, opening new horizons for percutaneous implantation.

TECHNOLOGY

• Alternative to Biological Tissue
• Textile valve composed of polyester fibers
• Discontinuous fiber construction
• Adapted to compression for transcatheter insertion

APPLICATIONS

• Transcatheter aortic/ mitral heart valve replacement
• Percutaneous valvular surgery

INNOVATION ADVANTAGES

• Improved reliability and early detectable failure mode: no risk of catastrophic failure
• Less sensible to the stress imposed by both the radial compression at time of catheter insertion, and later by working conditions
• Low thickness (less than 100 μm) adapted to reduced catheter size
• Textile valve can be manufactured at very low cost and does not require any special storage environment