Devices and methods for treatment of obesity

• US 20080262523A1
• Filed: 06/18/2008
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vibrynt, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Vibrynt, Inc.
• Inventors: Bender, Theodore M., Makower, Joshua, Uemura, Shuji, Friedmann, Josef L., Acosta, Pablo G., Shiu, Brian K., Lee, Crystine
• Application Number:
  US12/214,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20080262523A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/157
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00234 for minimally invasive surgery A61B17/0218, A61B17/0469, A61B17/12013, A61B17/1285, A61B17/29, A61B17/320016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/072 for applying a row of staples in a single action , e.g. the staples being applied simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/07207 the staples being applied sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/07292 Reinforcements for staple line, e.g. pledgets
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/115 Staplers for performing anastomosis in a single operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00876 magnetic
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0003 Apparatus for the treatment of obesity; Anti-eating devices surgical instruments or methods for treatment of obesity, devices specially adapted therefor A61B17/00; hollow or tubular parts of organs A61F2/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/003 inflatable
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0073 in the abdominal cavity, e.g. not attached to the stomach

Abstract

Methods, devices, tools, instruments and systems for treating a patient to induce weight loss. In one method embodiment, a device, including an expandable member in a collapsed configuration, is passed through an opening in the skin of the patient, and into the abdominal cavity of the patient. At least a portion of the expandable member is anchored relative to at least one structure in the abdominal cavity, without piercing the stomach. The expandable member is expanded to an expanded configuration in a space in the abdominal cavity to perform at least one of: prevention of expansion of the stomach of the patient into the space; and compression of a portion of the stomach.

Claims

1-112. -112. (canceled)

113. An anchoring frame for anchoring a device to an internal structure in a patient'"'"'s body, said frame comprising:

an elongated main body having proximal and distal ends;

at least one channel running substantially over a length of said main body;

a contact surface adapted to contact the internal structure in the patient'"'"'s body;

anchors positioned in said anchoring frame for being driven through said contact surface and into the internal structure; and

a deployment driver slidable through at least one of said at least one channels, wherein sliding said deployment driver through said at least one channel drives said anchors through said contact surface.

114. The anchoring frame of claim 113, further comprising a lumen passing through at least a portion of said elongated body to configure said anchoring frame to be passed over a guidewire.

115. The anchoring frame of claim 113, wherein said elongated body is flexible.

116. The anchoring frame of claim 113, further comprising a cable or wire extending proximally from said deployment driver and proximally of the proximal end of said elongated main body.

117. The anchoring frame of claim 113, further comprising an interlock on a proximal end portion of said elongated main body, said interlock comprising resiliently deflectable teeth configured to lock with an engagement member receivable in said interlock.

118. In combination, an implantable device engaged with an anchoring frame;

said implantable device comprising an expandable member having at least one key extending therefrom or groove formed therein;

said anchoring frame comprising an elongated main body having proximal and distal ends,

and at least one channel or rail running substantially over a length of said main body;

wherein said rail is receivable in said groove and said at least one key is receivable in said channel to mechanically connect said device with said anchoring frame.

119. The combination of claim 118, wherein each of said device and said anchoring frame are configured to be individually implanted in a patient.

120. The combination of claim 119, wherein each of said device and said anchoring frame are configured to be delivered individually over a guidewire.

121. The combination of claim 118, wherein said anchoring frame further comprises a contact surface adapted to contact an internal structure in a patient'"'"'s body;

anchors positioned in said anchoring frame for being driven through said contact surface and into the internal structure; and

a deployment driver slidable under the anchors to drive said anchors through said contact surface, thereby anchoring the anchoring frame to the internal structure.

122. An anchoring frame for anchoring a device to an internal structure in a patient'"'"'s body, said frame comprising:

an elongated main body having proximal and distal ends;

at least one channel running substantially over a length of said main body;

a contact surface adapted to contact the internal structure in the patient'"'"'s body;

anchors positioned in said anchoring frame for being driven through said contact surface and into the internal structure; and

a deployment driver slidable through at least one of said at least one channels, wherein sliding said deployment driver in a first direction through said at least one channel contacts said driver with first portions of said anchors and drives said anchors through said contact surface, and wherein subsequently sliding said deployment driver in a second direction through said at least one channel contact said driver with second portion s of said anchors and retracts said anchors from extending through said contact surface.

123-184. -184. (canceled)