Transesophageal gastric reduction method and device for practicing same
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Abstract
A gastric reduction pouch of a stomach is formed by gathering stomach tissue circumferentially from within the stomach to form a reduced diameter stomach section. A plurality of fasteners are deployed within the gathered stomach tissue to maintain the reduced diameter stomach portion. The gathering step may include folding the stomach tissue to produce a plurality of stomach tissue folds.
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56 Claims
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1-32. -32. (canceled)
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33. A device for forming and maintaining tissue folds from within the stomach comprising:
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an elongated member having a distal end for transoral placement in the stomach; a tissue gatherer carried on the distal end of the elongated member for placement into the stomach, the tissue gatherer defining a tissue chamber and including a tissue puller that pulls tissue into the tissue chamber to form a tissue fold within the tissue chamber; and a fastener deployer that directs a fastener into the tissue chamber and through the folded tissue for binding the tissue fold. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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56-92. -92. (canceled)
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