Patent ID: 9179896
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A bridge stop apparatus comprising: a bridge stop housing having a length and a width; an aperture extending through the length of the bridge stop housing, the aperture sized and configured to allow at least a portion of a bridging element to extend through at least a portion of the length of the aperture, the bridging element having a length capable of bridging at least a portion of the interior of an atrium of a human heart; a septal member, the septal member having an orifice formed therein, said orifice of sufficient diameter to receive the bridging element slidingly therein; and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the bridge stop housing, wherein the adjustment mechanism further comprises a toothed ribbon located within the bridge stop housing said adjustment mechanism having a restrained configuration wherein movement of said bridging element is restrained relative to said bridge stop, and an unrestrained configuration wherein movement of said bridging element is unrestrained relative to said bridge stop, said adjustment mechanism movable between said unrestrained and said restrained configuration, and subsequently from said restrained configuration back to said unrestrained configuration.