Solo Smart Aortic Heart Valve

Solo Smart offers all the benefits of a stentless valve with an easier and smarter implantability. Solo Smart is designed to provide superior hemodynamic performance to help patients return to their normal lifestyle.

• Solo Smart is 100% pure tissue: No stent, no suture ring and therefore no obstructions to blood flow
• No synthetic material: Solo Smart behaves like a healthy native valve
• The Solo Smart aortic pericardial tissue valve has a removable stent and a single suture line implant technique
• Ease of implantation of a stented valve with the hemodynamic performance of a stentless valve

Fully Removable Stent

Solo Smart features a temporary removable stent that supports the valve while suturing. 
This simplifies implantation while facilitating optimal valve positioning.

In addition to the fully removable stent, a single suture-line technique further simplifies implantation.

Clinical Experience with the Freedom Solo Stentless Aortic Valve in 277 Consecutive Patients. 

Patient Characteristics

Hemodynamic Results

“The postoperative decrease in gradients remained stable within valve size groups, with a trend toward lower mean gradients with increasing valve size.” 

“Calculations for the indexed EOA (EOA/BSA indicated complete absence of severe PPM with the FS (Freedom Solo) valve prosthesis.” “Moderate PPM occurred in 17 patients (6.1%) with a BSA of 2.09±0.2 m2 (BMI 34.5±3.9 kg/m2).”

Clinical Results

Conclusion

“In conclusion, the FS stentless valve is shown to be safe to implant and to have excellent hemodynamic and midterm performance. Patients who may profit most from its use are high-risk patients with active endocarditis, impaired LV function, and severe LVH, particularly with a small aortic root, and those who benefit from avoidance of anticoagulation with warfarin. Owing to the favorable EOA, the valve appears particularly attractive for patients at risk for PPM.”
“Stentless valves could be preferable for more active patients, particularly those with small aortic roots.”