Abstract: A mitral valve annuloplasty tube and method for implanting the same to treat mitral valve regurgitation by establishing new mitral valve annulus. The method comprising of cutting and detaching the leaflets of a mitral valve and displacing them to a different location, preferably to an upstream location of the blood flow, in order to compensate for the height of the valve prolapse. The displacement zone being filled with the present annuloplasty tube.

Abstract: A prosthesis for repairing a damaged valve such as a heart mitral valve is disclosed. The prothesis comprises a prosthetic valve leaflet mounted on a frame. When implanted in a mitral valve, the leaflet replaces the function of an endogenous valve leaflet and coapts with an opposed endogenous valve leaflet. The prosthesis may further comprise a strut or other member to which the edge of an opposed valve leaflet can be sutured, and which can be used to correct deformities of a ventricle wall. Further disclosed is a method of repairing a damaged heart valve by providing a prosthetic valve leaflet or by providing a prosthetic valve leaflet and prosthetic attachment points for an opposed valve leaflet.

Abstract: This invention is related to a novel passive medical device that can be used in surgery to stabilize tissue for anastomosis or other surgical work. More particularly, the tissue stabilization device and surgical arm stabilizes cardiac tissue which enables coronary artery bypass grafting surgeries to proceed while the heart is beating, or during other surgical procedures that require holding or retraction of tissue and arresting blood flow. A surgical arm comprising: (a) a first hollow link; (b) a second hollow link; (c) a hollow universal joint connecting an end of the first link with an end of the second link; (d) a support mount for the first link, the universal joint and the second link; and (e) a hollow tissue stabilizer connected to an end of a hollow link opposite to the hollow link that is proximate the support mount.