Patent ID: 9572584
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method for modifying a left atrial appendage, comprising: positioning a catheter adjacent the left atrial appendage; pushing a medical device having tines through a lumen of the catheter; anchoring the medical device within the left atrial appendage; deploying a tissue growth member of the medical device by exposing the tissue growth member from the catheter so that, as the tissue growth member is exposed, the tissue growth member self-expands to a deployed position, the medical device including threads being directly rotatably coupled to a threaded pusher member; and maintaining the tissue growth member in the left atrial appendage with a locking element, the locking element including multiple fingers that collapse directly dependent upon proximally moving the threaded pusher member relative to the tissue growth member.