Patent ID: 8336552
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A method for occluding at least 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 at least one opening spaced from the atraumatic tip for providing at least one catheter; at least one catheter, wherein a catheter comprises an end structure on a delivery end; and means for providing an occlusive material composition into and through the at least one catheter; b) positioning the atraumatic tip of the introducer shaft at or near the fundus of a uterus; c) positioning the delivery end of at least one 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 a catheter an effective amount of an occlusive material composition at or near the ostia of the fallopian tubes; and e) occluding the fallopian tubes by forming an occlusion with the occlusive material composition within the lumen of at least one fallopian tube.