Patent ID: 8216158
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A system for implantation of a medical device within a lumen of a patient, the system comprising: the medical device, wherein the medical device comprises: an elongated delivery device with a distal portion that defines a cavity; a vacuum port to draw tissue of a wall of the lumen into the cavity; a needle that defines a bore, wherein the bore receives the anchor member of the medical device, and wherein the needle is advanceable into the cavity and through the tissue disposed in the cavity while the anchor member is received by the bore to form a passageway from the lumen, through the tissue, and back into the lumen and to place the tether member within the passageway; and an ejection tool that is advanceable through the bore of the needle to eject the anchor member from the bore when the needle has been advanced though the tissue such that the anchor member is in the lumen on a first side of the passageway through the tissue and the device housing is in the lumen on a second side of the passageway through the tissue.