Instrument and methods for surgically closing percutaneous punctures
AssigneeTeleflex Life Sciences Limited
InventorsGreg A. Walters, Gary Roubin, Michael Thomas Nispel, Michael Austin Dotsey, Piyush Arora
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Abstract
A closure device for sealing a percutaneous puncture in a wall of a body passageway, the closure device including at least one of a toggle configured to engage an interior surface of the body passageway or a plug configured to engage an exterior surface of the body passageway and a guide wire configured to extend from an outside of the body to inside the body passageway, wherein at least one of the toggle and the plug is associated with the guide wire.
Claims18
A method for sealing a puncture in a wall of artery, the method comprising:
- inserting a toggle of a closure device carried by a delivery assembly along a guidewire into the puncture of the artery in a distal direction such that the toggle is slidable along the guidewire until the toggle is positioned inside the artery on the guidewire, wherein toggle is fixed to a distal end of the delivery assembly;
- releasing the toggle from the distal end of the delivery assembly while the toggle is in the artery;
- locking a plug and the toggle in place along a suture to seal the puncture;
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- removing the guidewire from the toggle and the artery.
A method for sealing a puncture in a wall of artery, the method comprising:
- inserting a toggle of a closure device carried by a delivery assembly into the puncture of the artery in a distal direction until the toggle is positioned inside the artery, wherein the toggle is fixed to the delivery assembly;
- actuating the delivery assembly via an actuator in order to move the delivery assembly in a proximal direction and release the toggle from between a distal end of a delivery component and a release component of the delivery assembly while the toggle is in the artery;
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- locking a plug and the toggle in place along a suture to seal the puncture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.