Three-needle closure device

a three-needle, suture technology, applied in the field of suture devices, can solve the problems of reducing the benefits of using a smaller or less invasive percutaneous area, and reducing the use value of suture devices
US20100145366A1Inactive Publication Date: 2010-06-10ST JUDE MEDICAL PUERTO RICO BV
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
ST JUDE MEDICAL PUERTO RICO BV
Publication Date
2010-06-10
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a three-needle type vascular closure system. The closure system utilizes three needles in the form of a guiding device, an expandable needle, and a hooking device. The guiding device is used to make the initial opening in the vessel, where the opening provides access for a sheath through which a medical procedure is to be performed. The expandable needle is inserted into the vessel in which it expands radially from the needle to form a target. The hooking device is also inserted into the vessel and is used to hook the expandable needle so as to form an internal union between the hooking device and the expandable needle. The needles can then be retracted thereby extending a suture from the hooking device and forming an internal suture pass that can be used to approximate the tissue surrounding the initial opening in the vessel. In one embodiment, the suture is passed across the vessel opening prior to dilation of the vessel opening.
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[0001] This is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 103,150 filed on 11 Apr. 2005, now pending, the disclosure of which is incorporated, in its entirety, by this reference, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 791,097 filed on 2 Mar. 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,932,824, the disclosure of which is incorporated, in its entirety, by this reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] This invention relates to suturing devices. More specifically, this invention relates to suturing devices for approximating tissue surrounding an opening in a corporeal vessel wall.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0003] Various medical procedures, particularly cardiology procedures, involve accessing a corporeal vessel through a percutaneous sheath. The sheath necessarily requires the formation of a hole or opening in the vessel wall so that a medical procedure can be performed via the sheath. After the particular medical procedure has been performed, the sheath must...

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