Patent ID: 8715342
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. Apparatus comprising an annuloplasty system for use on a subject, which comprises: an annuloplasty ring, which comprises a sleeve having a wall defining a lumen that extends longitudinally along a length of the sleeve; a contracting mechanism, coupled to the sleeve; a contracting member that extends along at least a portion of the sleeve and is coupled at respective locations along the contracting member to (a) the contracting mechanism and (b) a portion of the sleeve, wherein the contracting mechanism is configured to contract the annuloplasty ring by pulling on the portion of the sleeve; at least one anchor, shaped so as to define a tissue coupling element, which tissue coupling element is shaped so as to define a longitudinal axis, and is configured to penetrate cardiac tissue of the subject in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis; and an anchor deployment manipulator, configured to be removably positioned within the lumen of the sleeve, and, while so positioned, to deploy the tissue coupling element from a distal end of the deployment manipulator by rotating the tissue coupling element in order to penetrate the tissue coupling element through the wall of the sleeve into the cardiac tissue in the direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tissue coupling element and parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the deployment manipulator through the distal end of the deployment manipulator.