Patent ID: 8187289
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method for carrying out anastomosis in tracts of a digestive tube comprising the steps of: introducing a guide means through a natural orifice and within tissues of the tracts intended to be drawn together and joined, shaping said guide means as an open ring extending between opposite free guide ends, said open ring portions of the tissues to be joined by means of anastomosis with said free guide ends meeting at said natural orifice, inserting at least one portion of an anastomotic device along the guide means, locking said at least one portion of the anastomotic device on said guide means in a position remote from both free guide ends, moving said portion of the anastomotic device to an anastomotic site and drawing together said portions of the tissues intended to be joined by pulling one of said free guide ends while conserving said open ring, and carrying out an anastomosis between said tissue portions.