Patent ID: 9597184
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A bridge stop apparatus comprising: a bridge stop housing having a length and a width; an aperture extending through the length of the bridge stop housing, the aperture sized and configured to allow at least a portion of a bridging element to extend through at least a portion of the length of the aperture, the bridging element having a length capable of bridging at least a portion of the interior of an atrium of a human heart; a septal member, the septal member having an orifice formed therein, said orifice of sufficient diameter to receive the bridging element slidingly therein; and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the bridge stop housing said adjustment mechanism having a restrained configuration wherein movement of said bridging element is restrained relative to said bridge stop, and an unrestrained configuration wherein movement of said bridging element is unrestrained relative to said bridge stop, said adjustment mechanism movable between said unrestrained and said restrained configuration; and an activation mechanism, said activation mechanism capable of activating said adjustment mechanism to move said adjustment mechanism from said unrestrained configuration to said restrained configuration and from said restrained configuration to said unrestrained configuration.