Patent ID: 8726906
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A method for occluding one fallopian tube in a human or animal body, comprising, (a) providing a delivery system that delivers an effective amount of an occlusive material composition, wherein the delivery system comprises a delivery device comprising an introducer shaft comprising an atraumatic tip and defining one opening spaced from the atraumatic tip for providing a catheter; one catheter, wherein the catheter comprises an end structure on a delivery end, and means for providing an occlusive material composition into and through the catheter; and an occlusive material composition; (b) positioning the atraumatic tip of the introducer shaft at or near the fundus of a uterus; (c) positioning the delivery end of the catheter at or near a uterine cornua such that the end structure is at or near a tubal ostium, wherein the end structure maintains the delivery end in the uterine cornua and aids in localized delivery of the occlusive material composition; (d) delivering from the catheter an effective amount of the occlusive material composition at or near the ostia of the fallopian tubes; and (e) occluding one fallopian tube by forming an occlusion with the occlusive material composition within the lumen of the fallopian tube.