Vessel sealing devices

• US 20070073343A1
• Filed: 11/28/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Jahns, Scott, Pignato, Paul, Clague, Cynthia, Olig, Christopher, Usher, Raymond, Guenst, Gary, Montpetit, Karen, Keogh, James, Harrstad, Philip
• Application Number:
  US11/604,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073343A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/232
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0482 Needle or suture guides guides for drills, pins or wire A61B17/17; for puncturing needles A61B17/3403
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/11 for performing anastomosis; Buttons for anastomosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/32053 Punch like cutting instruments, e.g. using a cylindrical or oval knife A61B17/326 takes precedence; trepans A61B17/1695; for use on the cornea A61F9/007
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1107 for blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1135 End-to-side connections, e.g. T- or Y-connections Y-shaped blood vessel prostheses A61F2002/065
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1139 Side-to-side connections, e.g. shunt or X-connections

Abstract

A device for temporarily sealing an opening in a blood vessel is provided. The device comprises a cutting mechanism for creating an opening in a blood vessel and a seal for sealing the opening in the blood vessel. The seal is delivered through an inner lumen of a tool body coupled to the cutting mechanism. Methods for using the device to construct an anastomosis between two vessels are also provided.

Claims

1-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A seal for temporarily sealing an opening in a blood vessel comprising:

a seal member having an inflatable chamber, the seal member having a collapsed configuration and an inflated configuration; and

a shaft coupled to the seal member, the shaft having an inner lumen fluidly connected to the inflatable chamber for adding or removing fluid from the inflatable chamber.

32. The device of claim 31 wherein the seal member comprises a coating.

33. The device of claim 31 wherein the seal member comprises a flexible material.

34. The device of claim 31 wherein the seal member comprises one or more ribs.

35. The device of claim 31 wherein the seal comprises one or more openings for delivering one or more fluids.

36. The device of claim 31 wherein the seal comprises one or more openings for delivering one or more agents.

37. The device of claim 31 wherein the seal comprises one or more suture guides.

38. A seal for temporarily sealing an opening in a blood vessel comprising:

a plurality of seal members coupled to a delivery shaft, wherein the seal members are configurable into a delivery configuration for passage through the opening in the blood vessel and a sealing configuration for sealing the opening in the blood vessel.

39. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprise a coating.

40. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprises a flexible material.

41. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprises one or more ribs.

42. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprise one or more openings for delivering one or more fluids.

43. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprise one or more openings for delivering one or more agents.

44. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprise one or more suture guides.

45. The device of claim 38 wherein the delivery configuration includes the seal members to be in a stacked configuration.

46. The device of claim 38 wherein the sealing configuration includes the seal members to be in a fanned out configuration.

47. The device of claim 38 wherein the seal members comprise one or more suture guides.

48-69. -69. (canceled)