Vascular port device

• US 20080147114A1
• Filed: 01/02/2008
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bypass, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bypass, Inc.
• Inventors: Derowe, Ari, Loshakove, Amir
• Application Number:
  US12/003,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20080147114A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/213
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0057 Implements for plugging an opening in the wall of a hollow or tubular organ, e.g. for sealing a vessel puncture or closing a cardiac septal defect sutures A61B17/04; closing rectum or urethra near body surface A61F2/0009
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/064 Surgical staples, i.e. penetrating the tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0644 penetrating the tissue, deformable to closed position
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/068 Surgical staplers , e.g. containing multiple staples or clampsstaplers containing only one staple A61B17/10; magazines or containers for staples A61B17/105; for performing anastomosis A61B17/115; staplers in general B25C5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/11 for performing anastomosis; Buttons for anastomosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00557 inflatable A61B2017/22051 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00637 for sealing trocar wounds through abdominal wall
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00663 the implement being a suture
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00668 the implement being a tack or a staple
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00867 shape memory effect for prostheses A61F2210/0014
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0641 having at least three legs as part of one single body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1103 Approximator
• 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

Abstract

A device for sealing a hole in a blood vessel, comprising:

• • a blood vessel engager comprising at least one spike, for engaging a portion of a blood vessel adjacent a hole in the blood vessel; and
  • a body coupled to the blood vessel engager,
  • wherein said device has at least two configurations, a first configuration in which said device does not seal the hole and a second configuration to which said device can be changed, in which second configuration said device seals said hole.

Claims

1. A method of providing a tool in a blood vessel of a patient, comprising:

accessing the blood vessel via an accessing pathway;

mounting an apertured element to the blood vessel;

using said apertured element to access said blood vessel;

sealing said apertured element, such that substantially no blood flows through said apertured element; and

leaving said sealed apertured element mounted on said blood vessel after closing said accessing pathway.