Method and device for use in minimally invasive placement of space-occupying intragastric devices

• US 7,033,373 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2001
• Issued: 04/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Satiety, Inc.
• Inventors: Hermann, George D., Howell, Thomas A., Chang, Robert T., Willis, David, Shields, David, Holmgren, Neil, Scott, J. Stephen, de la Torre, Roger
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ragonese, Andrea M.
• Application Number:
  US09/816,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20020055757A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,859 Days
• Field of Search: 606/191, 606/192, 606/153, 606/151, 606/195, 604/96.01, 623/23.65
• US Class Current: 606/191
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12099 characterised by the location of the occluder
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12136 Balloons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12172 having a pre-set deployed three-dimensional shape methods of manufacturing A61B2017/00526
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00278 Transorgan operations, e.g. transgastric
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00292 mounted on or guided by flexible, e.g. catheter-like, means
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/003 inflatable
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0036 Intragastrical devices

Abstract

A space occupying device for deployment within a patient'"'"'s stomach and methods of deploying and removing the device. The device includes an expandable member and fasteners, such as sutures, that extend to least partially through the patient'"'"'s stomach wall, and that anchor the device with the patient'"'"'s stomach. The device can be deployed and/or removed through transesophageal approaches and/or through a combination of transesophageal and transabdominal approaches.

Claims

1. A method of anchoring a space occupying device within the stomach of a patient comprising the steps of:

introducing a space occupying device into the patient'"'"'s stomach wherein said space occupying device includes an expandable member having one or more fasteners attached thereto; and

,

fastening said device to the patient'"'"'s stomach wall such that portions of said fasteners extend at least partially through the patient'"'"'s stomach wall but do not extend externally of the patient'"'"'s body.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said fasteners comprise one or more sutures.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said space occupying device is inflatable, and wherein the method further comprises the step of inflating the device after fastening the device to the patient'"'"'s stomach wall.