Patent ID: 9468437
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A surgical method for correcting a cardiac defect, comprising the steps of: making an incision in a patient's vein or artery to create an opening; inserting one or more successively larger diameter dilators into the opening to gradually increase the diameter of the patient's vein or artery; inserting an introducer element into the vein or artery; inserting a guidewire into the vein or artery through the introducer element and advancing the guidewire through the vein or artery to a cardiac defect to be treated; inserting a flexible shaft stapling device comprising one or more staples into the vein or artery through the introducer element and advancing the flexible shaft stapling device over the guidewire to the cardiac defect; actuating the flexible shaft stapling device to insert one or more staples into tissue proximate the cardiac defect to correct the cardiac defect.