Implant for vascular closure
AssigneeVivasure Medical Limited
InventorsPeter Grant, Mark McGoldrick, Christopher Martin, Gerard Brett
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Abstract
An implantable device for sealing an aperture in a tissue of a body vessel, includes: an external fixation disposed on the outside of a vessel wall; a scaffold disposed on the inside of the vessel wall and interfacing with the external fixation, at least a portion of the scaffold disposed through an aperture in the vessel wall; and a patch disposed on the inside of the vessel wall and sandwiched between the external fixation and the scaffold, the patch substantially covering the full area of the aperture, thereby sealing the aperture.
Claims18
1-30. (canceled)
A method of sealing an aperture in a body vessel using an implantable closure device and a closure system, comprising:
- performing one or more preliminary implant loading steps, the one or more preliminary implant loading steps comprising at least inserting a component of the closure system into a surgical opening and into the aperture;
- pushing a handle of the closure system distally to engage with a loading cannula of the closure system;
- rotating a sheath cam on the handle;
- pulling the closure system proximally to retract the delivery system until the closure device is positioned at the aperture in the vessel to be closed;
- depressing a cam lock button on the handle;
- rotating a fixation cam on the handle;
- pulling a guidewire of the closure system proximally to remove it from the delivery system;
- rotating a release cam on the handle;
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- pulling the closure system proximally until the delivery system is completely removed from the surgical opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.