Patent ID: 8777984

Claim:
A method of deploying a mechanical closure device through the septum of a heart to facilitate closing of a patent foramen ovale comprising: accessing the right atrium of the heart with a deployment device carrying the mechanical closure device, the mechanical closure device comprising a proximal and distal anchor with a closure line attached there between; advancing the deployment device distally until the deployment device penetrates through the interatrial septum into the left atrium; orienting the distal end of the deployment device back towards the interatrial septum; advancing the deployment device until the distal end of the deployment device penetrates through the interatrial septum into the right atrium; deploying the distal anchor from the distal end of the deployment device into the right atrium; retracting the deployment device back from the right atrium to the left atrium, and then from the left atrium to the right atrium, leaving a portion of the closure line between the proximal and distal anchors in the left atrium; deploying a proximal anchor associated with the mechanical closure device from the distal end of the deployment device into the right atrium.