Patent ID: 7758595

Claim:
A method of connecting suture to a heart valve having at least two leaflets, the method using one or more catheters, each catheter having a releasable capturing apparatus configured to releasably capture one or more heart valve leaflets, each catheter further having a suture deploying apparatus configured to deploy one or more sutures through one or more heart valve leaflets, the method comprising; positioning a first catheter in a patient's body so that the releasable capturing apparatus and suture deploying apparatus of the first catheter are adjacent a first heart valve leaflet; releasably capturing the first heart valve leaflet with the releasable capturing apparatus; deploying a first suture line through the first heart valve leaflet with the suture deploying apparatus; deploying a second suture line through the first heart valve leaflet with the suture deploying apparatus, wherein the first and second suture lines are deployed simultaneously through the first heart valve leaflet; releasing the first heart valve leaflet from the releasable capturing apparatus; and drawing the first and second suture lines through the first heart valve leaflet.