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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1994
Harrith M Hasson, Chicago, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
An instrument for facilitating the formation of a knot in a flexible line having a first portion extending through a tissue/organ and first and second free ends projecting away from the first portion. The instrument has a body defining a passage through which the first and second free ends of the flexible line can be passed in a first direction to be exposed at a tying location on the body. First structure is provided on the body for supporting a suture loop defined by wrapping the first and second free ends of the flexible line around each other. Second structure is provided on the body, spaced from the first structure, for releasably holding one of the first and second free ends of the flexible line.