Vaginal cuff closure tool and method
AssigneeGyrus ACMI, Inc. d.b.a. Olympus Surgical Technologies America
InventorsTsuyoshi Hayashida, Kester J. Batchelor
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a hollow sleeve member with an open interior section and a sleeve proximal and a sleeve distal end. Two or more probes are disposed within the open interior section and extending beyond the sleeve distal end when in a deployed position. Distal ends of the probes have a lateral space between each other. One or more tissue manipulators are disposed at the distal end of each of the at least two probes. The hollow sleeve member and the two or more probes move axially relative to each other to reduce the lateral space. A method of closing a vaginal cuff of a vaginal canal is also provided.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a hollow sleeve member with an open interior section and a sleeve proximal and a sleeve distal end;
- two or more probes disposed within the open interior section and extending beyond the sleeve distal end when in a deployed position and wherein probe distal ends of the probes have a lateral space between each other;
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- one or more tissue manipulators disposed at the probe distal end of each of the at least two probes;
- wherein the hollow sleeve member and the two or more probes move axially relative to each other to reduce the lateral space.
A method of closing a vaginal cuff of a vaginal canal, the vaginal cuff being formed at a distal end of the vaginal canal and the vaginal canal forming a vaginal opening at a proximal end of the vaginal canal, the method comprising:
- advancing a hollow sleeve member with an open interior section and a sleeve proximal and a sleeve distal end into a patient's anatomy;
- advancing a first probe and a second probe through the open interior section of the hollow sleeve member and into the patient's anatomy through the sleeve distal end, the first probe having a first tissue manipulator disposed at a probe distal end of the first probe and the second probe having a second tissue manipulator disposed at a probe distal end of the second probe;
- grasping a first tissue portion of the vaginal cuff with the first tissue manipulator and grasping a second tissue portion of the vaginal cuff with the second tissue manipulator, the first and second tissue portions being spaced apart from each other by a lateral space;
- moving at least one of the hollow sleeve member and the first and second probes relative to each other to reduce or eliminate the lateral space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.