Patent ID: 8322341
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method of occluding a patient's body lumen, comprising: advancing a delivery catheter tool at least partially receiving a first occluding device therein to a location within a fallopian tube of a patient, wherein the first occluding device includes a tail member, and a first transverse configuration within the delivery catheter tool; deploying the first occluding device from the delivery catheter tool and within the fallopian tube, wherein the deployed first occluding device comprises a radially expanded configuration with a second transverse dimension larger than the first transverse dimension; operatively coupling at least a portion of the tail member of the first occluding device within a lumen extending through a second occluding device; and slidably delivering the second occluding device distally along the extending tail member to a uterine ostium of the patient proximate the first occluding device after delivering the first occluding device from the delivery catheter tool within the fallopian tube.