Patent ID: 8734472

Claim:
A method for creating an intravascular connection, comprising: introducing a needle from a first vessel and into a tissue wall of a second vessel; advancing an intravascular connector through the first vessel, the intravascular connector having a first pair of clinch members comprising a first member and an apposed second member and a second pair of clinch members opposite from the first pair of clinch members and also comprising a first member and an apposed second member; introducing the second member of the first pair and the first member of the second pair into the second vessel from the first vessel such that the respective members deploy into contact against an inner wall of the second vessel; and deploying the first member of the first pair and the second member of the second pair into contact against an inner wall of the first vessel, wherein the first and second pairs of clinch members have a deployed configuration longitudinally disposed relative to contiguous portions of the first and second vessels, and wherein the first member of the first and second pair of clinch members each have a length less than each second member of the first and second pair of clinch members such that each first member is deployable on opposite ends of the connector by arcing into its deployed position.