Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Andrew L Akers

Paul J Smith

Conor Reid

Joseph Rausa

Tyler Cloyd

Jared Robertson

Elizabeth Mark

A device for treating hemorrhoids includes a housing sized and shaped for insertion to a target site within a rectum. The device also includes an inner member received within the housing such that the member may move longitudinally relative to the housing. In addition, the device includes a ligating mechanism at a distal end of the member which includes grasping arms movable between a receiving configuration in which distal ends of the arms are separated from one another and a grasping configuration in which the distal ends are drawn together to grasp tissue. The mechanism includes a ligating band received around the arms that is movable distally off of the arms to constrict around tissue grasped by the arms.

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Framingham, MA, United States of America

Andrew L Akers