Methods and devices for repair or replacement of heart valves or adjacent tissue without the need for full cardiopulmonary support

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Methods and systems for endovascular, endocardiac or endoluminal approaches , to a patient's heart to perform surgical procedures that may be performed or used without requiring extracorporeal cardiopulmonary bypass. Furthermore these procedures can be performed through a relatively small number of small incisions. These procedures may illustratively include heart valve implantation, heart valve repair, resection of a diseased heart valve replacement of a heart valve, repair of a ventricular aneurysm repair of an , arrhythmia, repair of an aortic dissection etc. Such minimally invasive , procedures are preferably performed transapically (i.e. through the heart muscle at its left or …