Patent ID: 9037245
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of implanting electrically conductive leads in gastrointestinal musculature of a patient utilizing an endoscopic approach, comprising the steps of: inserting an endoscope into an esophagus of a patient; identifying a lower esophageal sphincter (LES); entering a gastrointestinal (GI) wall with an electrically conductive lead from a mucosal side by puncturing a mucosa of an anterior segment of a region encompassing the LES; creating a tunnel in a submucosa of the anterior segment of the region encompassing the LES, the tunnel exiting the GI wall through a muscularis propria, adventitia, or serosal side of a stomach of the patient; navigating the lead through the tunnel to an anterior abdominal wall; and exiting a second end of the lead through the anterior abdominal wall while leaving a first end of the lead in the gastrointestinal musculature of the patient within the tunnel, wherein the region encompassing the LES comprises an area 3 cm above and 3 cm below the LES.