Patent ID: 8828032

Claim:
A method of creating a compression anastomosis between a gallbladder and an adjacent organ, said method comprising the steps of: a) placing a first magnet within the adjacent organ such that the first magnet is proximate to a wall of the organ and adjacent to the gallbladder; b) placing one or more second magnets or magnetic materials in the gallbladder with a biliary catheter or an endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration needle, without creating a stoma in the gallbladder, such that the first magnet and the one or more second magnets are magnetically attracted to one another through a defined tissue area of the combined thickness of a wall of the gallbladder and the wall of the adjacent organ and exert compressive forces on the defined area; and c) removing the first magnet and the one or more second magnets when a compression anastomosis has formed in the defined tissue area.