Tissue stapler with positioning mechanism

• US 7,694,864 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2009
• Issued: 04/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Okada, Yuta, Sekine, Ryuta
• Primary Examiner(s): Nash; Brian D
• Application Number:
  US12/436,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20090212088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 342 Days
• Field of Search: 227/175.1, 227/19, 227/180.1, 227/179.1
• US Class Current: 227/175.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/07207 the staples being applied sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1114 of the digestive tract, e.g. bowels or oesophagus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/115 Staplers for performing anastomosis in a single operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00398 using powered actuators, e.g. stepper motors, solenoids
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2905 flexible
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2926 Details of heads or jaws
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/306 holding by means of suction
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320052 Guides for cutting instruments

Abstract

A position information transmitting member for transmitting position information to a staple receiving portion is provided in a tissue stapler having a staple receiving portion which comprises the anvil of the stapler. Thereby, an operator can easily locate the position of and grasp the staple receiving portion located within a tissue to swiftly execute stapling. The tissue stapler includes a stapling portion provided with an endoscope inserting tube path, a stapling portion provided with a staple injecting portion arranged on a distal end side of the inserting portion, and a staple receiving member (anvil) arranged separately from the inserting portion, to be grasped by a treatment tool introduced via the inserting portion in a state when it is opposed to the stapling portion via a tissue, to bend a distal end portion of a staple pressed out from the staple injecting portion of the stapling portion which has penetrated through the tissue.

Claims

1. A method for stapling using a tissue stapler which includes:

an inserting portion provided with an endoscope inserting tube path;

a stapling portion provided with a staple injecting portion arranged at a distal end of the inserting portion;

a staple receiving member detachably coupled to the inserting portion and being formed to bend a distal end portion of a stapling staple member pressed out from the staple injecting portion of the stapling portion and penetrating through the tissue; and

a position information transmitting member provided at the staple receiving member for transmitting position information of the staple receiving member, wherein the staple receiving member comprises a shaft member structured to be grasped by and fixed to a treatment tool introduced through the inserting portion in a state of being opposed to the stapling portion via a body tissue, wherein the shaft member includes the position information transmitting member thereon,

the method comprising the steps of;

inserting the staple receiving member provided with the position information transmitting member into a living body, in a manner such that the staple receiving member is separated from the inserting portion and the position information transmitting member provided at the staple receiving member is separated from the inserting portion;

inserting the inserting portion provided with the stapling portion into the living body; and

stapling the body tissue with the stapling portion and the staple receiving member after confirming the position of the staple receiving member based on position information transmitted from the position information transmitting member and penetrated through a wall in the living body.

2. The method according to claim 1, including:

detecting a position of the staple receiving member with a position detecting member receiving the position information from the position information transmitting member; and

guiding the staple receiving member based on detected information of the position detecting member with a guiding member.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the position detecting member comprises at least one of an endoscope introduced into the tissue stapler via the inserting portion and the treatment tool, and

wherein the guiding member comprises the treatment tool introduced into the guiding member via the inserting portion or the endoscope.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the position detecting member and the guiding member includes an endoscope and the treatment tool introduced transabdominally.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the staple receiving member is structured to be grasped by and fixed to the treatment portion using a magnetic force.

6. The method according to claim 1, including cutting an inner peripheral portion of the staple injecting portion with a cutting member.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the staple receiving member includes a main body thereof provided with a grasped portion having a diameter smaller than that of the stapling portion, a plurality of arm portions coupled with the main body and structured to be able to be folded in an inactivated state, and to expand when grasped at the grasped portion, to positions juxtaposed to the stapling portion.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the stapling portion is provided with a plurality of the staple injecting portions arranged in a substantially ring shape.

9. The method according to claim 1, including outputting electromagnetic waves for informing the position of the staple receiving member.

10. The method according to claim 9, including outputting light as the electromagnetic waves.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the stapling portion comprises a grasping piece made of first and second pivotably arranged arms which are openable and closeable to grasp the staple receiving member.

12. The method according to claim 1, including rotating a portion of the stapling portion relative to the staple receiving member with a rotating member.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the stapling portion comprises staples that are peripherally and spacedly arranged relative to one another and the staple members being oriented at an angle relative to the axial direction of the stapling portion.

14. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of inserting a guide wire into the living body before inserting the staple receiving member into the living body, the staple receiving member being inserted following the guide of the guide wire.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the position information transmitting member provided at the staple receiving member and the inserting portion are located such that a living tissue is provided between the position information transmitting member and the inserting portion.

16. A method for stapling using a tissue stapler which includes:

an inserting portion provided with an endoscope inserting tube path;

a stapling portion provided with a staple injecting portion arranged at a distal end of the inserting portion;

a staple receiving member detachably coupled to the inserting portion and being formed to bend a distal end portion of a stapling staple member pressed out from the staple injecting portion of the stapling portion and penetrating through the tissue; and

a position information transmitting member provided at the staple receiving member for transmitting position information of the staple receiving member, wherein the staple receiving member comprises a shaft member structured to be grasped by and fixed to a treatment tool introduced through the inserting portion in a state of being opposed to the stapling portion via a body tissue, wherein the shaft member includes the position information transmitting member thereon,

the method comprising the steps of;

inserting the staple receiving member provided with the position information transmitting member into a living body, in a manner such that the staple receiving member is separated from the inserting portion;

inserting the inserting portion provided with the stapling portion into the living body; and

stapling the body tissue with the stapling portion and the staple receiving member after confirming the position of the staple receiving member based on position information transmitted from the position information transmitting member and penetrated through a wall in the living body, including using a suction arrangement to create suction in an area between the stapling portion and the staple receiving member to draw the body tissue therebetween for being thereafter clamped and stapled.