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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2011
Applicants:
Fletcher T. Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rhunjay J. Yu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Fletcher T. Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rhunjay J. Yu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of manipulating tissue at a vessel includes advancing a device distally relative to an opening at an interior surface of the vessel, and into a first wall portion of a vessel until an entirety of the device is within the wall of the vessel, the device having a distal end, a proximal end, and a cutting element coupled to the proximal end, and using the cutting element to increase a size of the opening by retracting the device proximally.