BL LIFE SCIENCE
BL Life Science
CryoLife is one of the world’s leading contemporary medical device companies, providing preserved human tissues for cardiac and vascular surgeries, mechanical heart valves for aortic or mitral valve replacement, surgical adhesives and sealants, cardiac lasers for treatment of refractory angina, and state-of-the-art technology and surgical training in adult and pediatric cardiovascular surgery.
Our Products
The On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve is a bileaflet mechanical heart valve, which consists of an orifice housing and two leaflets. The orifice inflow area has a flared inlet designed to reduce flow turbulence, and the outflow rim consists of leaflet guards designed to protect the leaflets while in the closed position. The leaflets rotate around tabs located within the inner circumference of the orifice ring. In the closed position, each leaflet forms a nominal angle of 40º relative to the plane of the orifice. In the open position, the plane of each leaflet forms a nominal angle of 90deg relative to the plane of the orifice.
Aortic Heart Valve with Conform-X Sewing Ring
An artificial substitute for a natural mitral heart valve intended to be implanted during open heart surgery typically to treat acquired or congenital valvular disease. It consists of two flat, semicircular, pyrolytic carbon-coated or polymer leaflets that pivot about pyrolytic carbon or metal struts attached to the valve housing by hinges; the hinge points intersect the valve lumen resulting in a total of three openings. When pressurized blood hits the valve, the two halves of the circle fold away from the valve ring and allow blood to flow into the three openings before the valve flaps close again.
Mitral Heart Valve with Standard Sewing Ring
An artificial substitute for a natural aortic heart valve fitted with a length of biologic-polymer blood vessel (vascular graft) intended to be implanted during open heart surgery to simultaneously replace a dysfunctional aortic heart valve and repair/replace a damaged or diseased ascending aorta. The valve component consists of two flat, semicircular, pyrolytic carbon-coated or polymer leaflets that pivot about struts attached to the valve housing by hinges; the synthetic polymer blood vessel is designed to conform to the aortic root anatomy and is impregnated with a bioabsorbable animal-derived gelatin.
On-X Ascending Aortic Prosthesis
An artificial substitute for a natural aortic heart valve intended to be implanted during open heart surgery typically to treat acquired or congenital valvular disease. It consists of two flat, semicircular, pyrolytic carbon-coated or polymer leaflets that pivot about pyrolytic carbon or metal struts attached to the valve housing by hinges; the hinge points intersect the valve lumen resulting in a total of three openings. When pressurized blood hits the valve, the two halves of the circle fold away from the valve ring and allow blood to flow into the three openings before the valve flaps close again.