Patent ID: 7427279
Filing Date: 2008-09-23
Classification: A61B,A61F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of closing an opening in an atrial appendage of a heart, the method comprising the steps of: delivering a catheter, having a proximal end and a distal end, and having at least two tissue anchors, such that the distal end of the catheter is adjacent the opening; moving a first and second anchor support from a reduced cross-sectional orientation to an enlarged cross-sectional orientation where the midpoint of each said first and second anchor supports are in contact with tissue distal of the opening of said atrial appendage; and advancing the at least two anchors out of the midpoints of the corresponding anchor supports and into the tissue surrounding the opening deploying the at last two anchors from the catheter into tissue surrounding the opening, each anchor having a suture attached thereto; and pulling on the sutures to close the opening.