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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kosuke Motai, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/3205 (2006.01); A61B 17/221 (2006.01); A61B 17/29 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/32056 (2013.01); A61B 17/221 (2013.01); A61B 17/29 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2212 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2926 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a tissue binding method, a ring-shaped part () of a snare wire () is disposed at a position surrounding a binding target site, the tissue at the binding target site is pulled while the ring-shaped part () is pressed against the tissue around the binding target site at a plurality of pressing points that are located away from each other in the circumferential direction of the ring-shaped part (), and, in a state in which the tissue at the binding target site is pulled, the diameter of the ring-shaped part () is reduced to bind the tissue, while adjusting the position in the pressing direction at one or more of the pressing points.