Clifton A. Alferness,Jai Shankar Raman,John Melmouth Power
申请号:
US12719553
公开号:
US08277372B2
申请日:
2010.03.08
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要:
A cardiac support device comprising a jacket of flexible and biocompatible material having a first axis for alignment generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of a patients heart and a second axis that is transverse to the first axis. The material exhibits an amount of expansion in response to a force applied to the material along the first axis that is different than an amount of expansion in response to the force applied to the material along the second axis.