Patent ID: 8900255

Claim:
An anastomotic tissue connection device in the form of a circular suture clip device which has a head side end and a handle side end, with a head part arranged at the head side end comprising a reception means for receiving at least one connection member for the connection of the tissue and which, furthermore, is provided with a counter-pressure plate being firmly arranged at a counter-pressure plate holding device and facing the head part for retention during the introduction of the connection member into the tissue that is to be connected, with the head part and the counter-pressure plate holding device being relatively movable towards each other, wherein the counter-pressure plate is arranged between the reception means and the handle side end, and wherein, for a support of the counter-pressure plate, the counter-pressure plate holding device forms a plurality of columns which are arranged at an outer circumference of the counter-pressure plate and extend therefrom in a direction of the handle side end and which are positioned and dimensioned in a thin design in such a manner that space directly behind the counter-pressure plate is either a circumferentially open space or a circumferentially closed space, the circumferentially closed space being confined by the plurality of columns and the circumferentially open space being unconfined by the plurality of columns such that the circumferentially open space is freely accessible radially to the outer circumference of the counter-pressure plate.