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US 2026/0069267 A1Published application
Tissue surface piercing system and methods
AssigneeAltyx Medical, Inc.
InventorsDouglas Scherr, Roger Goldberg, Ghazaleh Rostami Nia
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Abstract
A system, including a needle guide defining a path of travel of a needle inserted through the guide, and a tissue manipulator configured to approximate tissue and said needle guide and to position at least a portion of the tissue in the path of travel of the needle, and wherein the tissue manipulator and the needle guide are alignable such that the path of travel crosses a same surface of the tissue a plurality of times.
Claims20
A method for threading a tissue, comprising:
- positioning a needle guide at a first side of a first tissue;
- positioning a tissue manipulator at a second side of the first tissue;
- approximating the tissue manipulator to the needle guide;
- positioning at least a portion of the first tissue in a path of travel of a needle traveling through the needle guide;
- and
- inserting the needle into the needle guide, such that the needle traverses the first tissue a plurality of times without crossing into the second side of the first tissue.
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A method for securing patient tissue, comprising:
- positioning a needle guide having a cavity and a lumen extending through the cavity adjacent a first side of the patient tissue;
- positioning a tissue manipulator having a deployable probe in a retracted position adjacent a second side of the patient tissue;
- deploying the deployable probe from the retracted position to a deployed position to direct the patient tissue into the cavity of the needle guide;
- and
- advancing a needle through the lumen of the needle guide to traverse the cavity and pierce the patient tissue as it moves across the cavity.
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A method comprising:
- positioning a needle guide having a cavity and a lumen extending through the cavity adjacent a sacrospinous ligament of a patient;
- advancing a tissue manipulator having a deployable probe in a retracted position distally into a rectum through an anus of the patient to a position adjacent the sacrospinous ligament;
- deploying the deployable probe from the retracted position to a deployed position to direct a portion of a wall of the rectum into the cavity of the needle guide;
- advancing a needle through the needle guide to traverse the cavity and pierce the portion of the wall of the rectum;
- and
- continuing to advance the needle beyond a distal opening of the needle guide to pierce a portion of the sacrospinous ligament.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.