Patent foramen ovale closure method
OwnerChao Chin-Chen, Randy Grishaber +3inventors
InventorsChao Chin-Chen, Randy Grishaber, Gene Kammerer, Issac Khan, Jin Park
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Abstract
The present invention relates to devices for closing a passageway in a body, for example a patent foramen ovale (PFO) in a heart, and related methods of using such closure devices for closing the passageway. The method includes introducing a mechanical closure device into an atrium of the heart and transeptally deploying the closure device across the interatrial septum to provide proximation of the septum secundum and septum primum.
Claims19
A method to facilitate closure of a PFO in a heart comprising:
- introducing a mechanical closure device into an atrium of the heart;
- and
- transeptally deploying the closure device across the septum secundum and septum primum to provide proximation of the septum secundum and septum primum.
A method to facilitate closure of a PFO in a heart comprising:
- introducing a mechanical closure device into an atrium of the heart, the heart having an interatrial septum with a first and a second atrial appendage;
- and
- transeptally deploying the closure device across the first or the second atrial appendage to provide proximation of the first and the second atrial appendages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.