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Method for thoracoscopic intracardiac procedures including septal defect

  • US 6,079,414 A
  • Filed: 05/07/1996
  • Issued: 06/27/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of visualizing an interior chamber of a heart for closing a septal defect, the method comprising:

  • introducing a scope through a penetration in a wall of the heart into an interior chamber of a patient'"'"'s heart, the scope having a proximal end, a distal end, an optical channel therebetween, and a transparent bulb at the distal end;

    preventing blood from leaking from the internal chamber through the penetration;

    viewing the interior chamber of the heart through the optical channel and through the transparent bulb; and

    positioning the bulb against a septal defect in a wall of the interior chamber of the heart so that the location shape and size of the septal defect is visualized.

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