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US 10,441,450 B2Granted
Apparatus and methods for rapid deployment of tissue anchors
AssigneeUSGI Medical, Inc.
InventorsVahid Saadat, Cang C. Lam
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Abstract
In apparatus and methods for rapid deployment of tissue anchors, a tissue manipulation assembly has a pivoting jaw. A needle assembly can be advanced through the launch tube across tissue received between the jaw members of the tissue manipulation assembly. Tissue anchors can be advanced through the needle assembly for securing received tissue. The tissue anchors can be positioned within a reloadable chamber of a control handle disposed outside the patient, then advanced through the needle assembly.
Claims12
Surgical apparatus, comprising:
- a flexible tube;
- a handle having a tubular body attached to a first end of the flexible tube;
- a tissue manipulation assembly attached to a second end of the flexible tube;
- a needle assembly movable within the flexible tube, with the needle assembly including a hollow needle attached to an end of a sheath;
- a pusher in the handle extendible into the sheath;
- a first controller on the handle linked to the tissue manipulation assembly;
- a second controller on the handle for advancing the needle assembly through the flexible tube, and for advancing the pusher into the sheath;
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- with the handle including a loading chamber in a sidewall of the tubular body for loading a tissue anchor cartridge into the flexible tube at the handle, the loading chamber being between the first controller and the second controller.
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Surgical apparatus, comprising:
- a flexible tube;
- a handle attached to a first end of the flexible tube, with the handle and the first end of the flexible tube having a longitudinal axis;
- a tissue manipulation assembly attached to a second end of the flexible tube;
- a needle assembly movable within the flexible tube, with the needle assembly including a hollow needle attached to an end of a sheath;
- a pusher movable into the sheath;
- a first controller on the handle linked to the tissue manipulation assembly;
- a second controller on the handle for advancing the needle assembly through the flexible tube, and for advancing the pusher into the sheath, with the first controller attached to the handle and movable about a first axis and the second controller attached to the handle and movable about a second axis, and with the first axis and the second axis not parallel to the longitudinal axis;
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- a loading chamber in the handle and in the needle assembly for loading a tissue anchor cartridge into the sheath.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.