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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2015
Terumo Medical Corporation, Somerset, NJ (US);
Hsiao-Wei Tang, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Shih Weng, Taipei, TW;
Shih-Jui Han, Taipei, TW;
Chung-Chu Chen, Taipei, TW;
Shih-Ming Wang, Taipei, TW;
Chun-Chia Juan, Taipei, TW;
Terumo Medical Corporation, Somerset, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for suturing tissue. An elongated deployment shaft carries a needle deployment assembly with needles carrying suture material and a stabilizer that is reconfigurable between an unexpanded insertion profile and an expanded profile. A catcher tube over the shaft having a catcher at a distal end may retain at least a portion of the needles carrying the suture material when the needles are passed through the tissue to be sutured into engagement with the catcher. A sheath over the catcher tube may sandwich tissue to be sutured against the stabilizer when expanded under control of first actuator. A second actuator may control the needles.