PROCEDES ET DISPOSITIFS DE REPARATION OU DE REMPLACEMENT DE VALVULES CARDIAQUES OU DU TISSU CONTIGU SANS NECESSITER UNE ASSISTANCE CARDIO-PULMONAIRE TOTALE
Methods and systems for endovascular, endocardiac, or endoluminal approachesto a patient's heart to perform surgical procedures that may be performed orused without requiring extracorporeal cardiopulmonary bypass. Furthermore,these procedures can be performed through a relatively small number of smallincisions. These procedures may illustratively include heart valveimplantation, heart valve repair, resection of a diseased heart valve,replacement of a heart valve, repair of a ventricular aneurysm, repair of anarrhythmia, repair of an aortic dissection, etc. Such minimally invasiveprocedures are preferably performed transapically (i.e., through the heartmuscle at its left or right ventricular apex).
