Patent ID: 9610184
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A system for retrieving an intragastric balloon, comprising: an elongated delivery tube having a lumen; a balloon retrieval tool disposed and able to slide within the delivery tube lumen, the retrieval tool having a pair of grasper arms and a pair of cutter arms, both of which can be displaced longitudinally within the lumen of the delivery tube, and both of the pairs of arms are pre-formed to have bends such that they diverge outward upon being expelled from a distal end of the delivery tube, the grasper arms being longer than the cutter arms, and emerge from the delivery tube first, the grasper arms having grasping hooks on distal ends thereof and the cutter arms having hooks that are sharper than the grasper arms to facilitate piercing of an intragastric balloon.