Medical device, kit and method for constricting tissue or a bodily orifice, for example, a mitral valve

A method, comprising:

• embedding a plurality of tissue anchors into respective locations about a periphery of an orifice in tissue within a body, each of the embedded plurality of tissue anchors coupled to a respective implant guide line;
• delivering an implant member along the implant guide lines to locations of the embedded plurality of tissue anchors, the implant member including a first end, a second end, a plurality of guide line receivers positioned between the first end and the second end along the implant member to respectively receive the implant guide lines, and a plurality of tissue anchor receivers, each of the plurality of tissue anchor receivers positioned to physically matingly couple directly with a respective one of the embedded plurality of tissue anchors rather than with the respective implant guide line when the implant member is in an implantable configuration, and each of the tissue anchor receivers being positioned in the implant member between a respective one of the guide line receivers and an embedded portion of a respective one of the embedded tissue anchors in a state in which the respective one of the embedded tissue anchors is physically coupled to the tissue anchor receiver;
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• bending the implant member to be in the implantable configuration in which the implant member has an arcuate shape and forms a structure sufficiently rigid to affect a shape of the orifice in the tissue.

A method, comprising:

• embedding a plurality of tissue anchors into respective locations about a periphery of an orifice in tissue within a body, each of the embedded plurality of tissue anchors coupled to a respective implant guide line;
• delivering an implant member along the implant guide lines to locations of the embedded plurality of tissue anchors, the implant member including a plurality of guide line receivers, a plurality of segments physically coupled to one another end-to-end, and at least three tissue anchor receivers, each of the tissue anchor receivers physically matingly coupleable directly to a respective one of the plurality of embedded tissue anchors, and each of the tissue anchor receivers being positioned in the implant member between a respective one of the guide line receivers and an embedded portion of a respective one of the embedded tissue anchors in a state in which the respective one of the embedded tissue anchors is physically coupled to the tissue anchor receiver;
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• manipulating the implant member to be in an implantable configuration in which the implant member forms a structure sufficiently rigid to affect a shape of the orifice in the tissue.