4Tech Inc.

Evin William Donnelly

Idan Tobis

Michael Gilmore

Andrea Guidotti

Charlotte Murphy

Paolo Denti

Kevin Lynn

Hugo Vanermen

Thomas Campbell

Gabriel Sobrino-Serrano

John Mullins

A tissue anchor includes a shaft, a tissue-coupling element, and a flexible elongate tension member. The tissue-coupling element includes a wire, which is shaped as an open loop having more than one turn when the tissue anchor is unconstrained. The tension member includes a distal portion that is fixed to a site on the open loop, a proximal portion, which has a longitudinal segment that runs alongside at least a portion of the shaft, and a crossing portion, which (i) is disposed between the distal and the proximal portions along the tension member, and (ii) crosses at least a portion of the open loop when the tissue anchor is unconstrained. The tissue anchor is configured to allow relative axial motion between the at least a portion of the shaft and the longitudinal segment of the proximal portion of the tension member when the tissue anchor is unconstrained.

Off-center tissue anchors with tension members

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Salthill, Ireland

Evin William Donnelly