Apparatus and method for compressing body tissue
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1. A system for delivering a surgical clip to a surgical site within a patient'"'"'s body to compress body tissue, comprising:
- an endoscopic device;
an endoscope cap disposed on a distal end of said endoscopic device;
a surgical clip removably disposed on an outside surface of said endoscope cap and having a potential energy transformable into energy for grasping tissue when said surgical clip is deployed; and
a deployment device associated with said surgical clip.
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Abstract
A system and method for delivering a surgical clip to a surgical site within a patient'"'"'s body to compress body tissue is disclosed. In one embodiment for the system of the present invention, the system includes an endoscopic device that has an endoscope cap disposed on a distal end of the endoscopic device. A surgical clip is removably disposed on an outside surface of the endoscope cap. A deployment device is associated with the surgical clip for deploying the surgical clip from the endoscope cap to the body tissue that is to be compressed.
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1. A system for delivering a surgical clip to a surgical site within a patient'"'"'s body to compress body tissue, comprising:
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an endoscopic device;
an endoscope cap disposed on a distal end of said endoscopic device;
a surgical clip removably disposed on an outside surface of said endoscope cap and having a potential energy transformable into energy for grasping tissue when said surgical clip is deployed; and
a deployment device associated with said surgical clip. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method for delivering a surgical clip to a surgical site within a patient'"'"'s body to compress body tissue, comprising the steps of:
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disposing a surgical clip on an outside surface of an endoscope cap such that the clip is in an austentite phase, said endoscope cap disposed on a distal end of an endoscopic device;
deploying said endoscopic device to a site within the patient'"'"'s body such that said surgical clip is positioned proximate to the body tissue to be compressed;
drawing the body tissue within said endoscope cap; and
deploying said surgical clip from said outside surface of said endoscope cap such that the tissue grasping surfaces move near one another. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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55. A surgical clip, the surgical clip deliverable at a site within a patient'"'"'s body by an endoscopic device, comprising:
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a plurality of grasping surfaces;
a plurality of joints connecting each one of said plurality of grasping surfaces; and
wherein said grasping surfaces are movable between a tissue receiving position and a tissue grasping position and wherein when said grasping surfaces are in said tissue receiving position said grasping surfaces are adapted to be received on an outer surface of the endoscopic device. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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