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Single fold device for tissue fixation

  • US 9,186,268 B2
  • Filed: 03/02/2012
  • Issued: 11/17/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A surgical method, comprising:

  • translumenally advancing a flexible elongate shaft having a vacuum chamber at a distal end thereof into a stomach of a patient;

    applying a vacuum force through the vacuum chamber to adhere stomach tissue to the vacuum chamber; and

    with the tissue adhered to the vacuum chamber, moving the vacuum chamber relative to the shaft in a direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the shaft to form a fold in the stomach tissue.

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