Patent ID: 8535259
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. A surgical method, comprising: positioning a first terminal end of a tubular member in a gall bladder of a patient; positioning an intermediate portion of the tubular member through a stomach of the patient; positioning a second terminal end of the tubular member in an intestine of the patient to allow bile in the gall bladder to flow into an inner lumen of the tubular member through the first terminal end of the tubular member, flow through the inner lumen in the intermediate portion of the tubular member through the stomach, and flow out of the inner lumen at the second terminal end of the tubular member and into the intestine; and obstructing a common bile duct of the patient such that bile in the gall bladder cannot flow through the common bile duct to the intestine, and such that pancreatic fluid can flow from a pancreas of the patient to the intestine.