Patent ID: 9662212
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,A61M

Claim:
1. A method for delivering an anchor to a septal wall of a patient's heart, the anchor being coupled at a proximal end of an elongate tension member and being pivotable between an insertion configuration and a deployed configuration, the method comprising: inserting a catheter from outside a patient's body into the heart so that a distal end of the catheter is disposed in a first chamber of the heart adjacent a proximal side of the septal wall; inserting a distal end of the elongate tension member within a lumen of the catheter while the anchor is positioned proximally of and outside the patient's body; advancing the elongate tension member and the anchor through the lumen of the catheter with the elongate tension member advanced distally of the anchor and with the anchor in the insertion configuration, the elongate tension member being advanced through the lumen of the catheter so that the distal end of the elongate tension member is disposed within the first chamber; advancing the distal end of the elongate tension member through a perforation in the septal wall and into a second chamber of the heart; advancing the elongate tension member through the perforation in the septal wall until the anchor is positioned adjacent the proximal side of the septal wall; pivoting the anchor from the insertion configuration to the deployed configuration; and tensioning the elongate tension member to pull the anchor into contact with the proximal side of the septal wall.