Adjustable percutaneous stomach lumen restriction device

• US 20050288694A1
• Filed: 06/23/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stepehen Solomon
• Original Assignee: Stepehen Solomon
• Inventors: Solomon, Stepehen
• Application Number:
  US11/165,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20050288694A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/157
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0401 Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors A61B17/0642 takes precedence; fixation devices for tendons or ligaments A61F2/0811
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0469 Suturing instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12013 for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00557 inflatable A61B2017/22051 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0404 Buttons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0458 Longitudinal through hole, e.g. suture blocked by a distal suture knot
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue

Abstract

A device is provided for percutaneously restricting a stomach lumen in which an outer casing surrounds a needle to define a space between the outer casing and the needle. A suture is provided in the space between the outer casing and the needle, and a plurality of disks are provided along the suture. The needle is adapted to pierce a wall of the lumen at a plurality of positions. The outer casing is retractable with respect to the needle to provide an opening through which the disks individually exit the space between the outer casing and the needle at each of the plurality of positions. And the lumen is restricted by drawing together the disks along the suture.

Claims

1. A device for percutaneously restricting a lumen, comprising:

a needle;

an outer casing which surrounds the needle to define a space between the outer casing and the needle;

a suture provided in the space between the outer casing and the needle; and

a plurality of disks provided along the suture;

wherein the needle is adapted to pierce a wall of the lumen at a plurality of positions;

wherein the outer casing is retractable with respect to the needle to provide an opening through which the disks individually exit the space between the outer casing and the needle at each of the plurality of positions; and

wherein the lumen is restricted by drawing together the disks along the suture.

2. A device for percutaneously restricting a lumen, comprising:

a first catheter comprising a first inflatable balloon portion at a distal end thereof;

a second catheter comprising a second inflatable balloon portion at a distal end thereof;

wherein the second catheter is adapted to be coupled to the first catheter such that when the second catheter is coupled to the first catheter the first balloon portion and the second balloon portion are provided at an adjustable distance with respect to each other along a lengthwise direction of the catheters.

3. A method for percutaneously restricting a lumen, comprising:

piercing a wall of the lumen from within the lumen at a plurality of positions;

depositing a disk outside of the wall of the lumen at each of the plurality of positions, the disks being connected along a suture; and

restricting the lumen by drawing together the disks along the suture.