Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
PAPILLARY MUSCLE APPROXIMATION PADS

Abstract:

A process for treating a heart valve involves delivering first and second working catheters to a ventricle of a heart of a patient using a transcatheter procedure, approximating a first pad associated with the first working catheter to a backside of a first papillary muscle of the ventricle, approximating a second pad associated with the second working catheter to a backside of a second papillary muscle of the ventricle, and manipulating one or more sutures physically coupled to at least one of the first and second pads to decrease a distance between the first and second papillary muscles.