US 11,839,372 B2
Suture delivery device
Ronald Hentges, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Michi E. Garrison, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Silk Road Medical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Silk Road Medical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/108,711.
Application 17/108,711 is a continuation of application No. 16/177,716, filed on Nov. 1, 2018, granted, now 10,881,393.
Application 16/177,716 is a continuation of application No. 13/961,746, filed on Aug. 7, 2013, granted, now 10,159,479, issued on Dec. 25, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/681,584, filed on Aug. 9, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2021/0212679 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61M 25/09 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61M 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0483 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0057 (2013.01); A61M 1/3621 (2013.01); A61M 25/0905 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0065 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00659 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00663 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00672 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
introducing, into a vessel wall, a removable guidewire segment and a distal end of a body, the removable guidewire segment removably attached to a distal housing portion at the distal end of the body, the body comprising a suture element held within the body and at least one suture capture rod within the body, the suture capture rod being operatively associated with the suture element and arranged to pass the suture element through the vessel wall such that opposed portions of the suture element extend from the vessel wall;
deploying, via the body, the suture element into the vessel wall;
exposing, from the vessel wall and while maintaining pressure on the suture element, the distal housing portion of the body;
detaching, from the removable guidewire segment and at the distal housing portion, the body such that a proximal end of the removable guidewire segment is detached and outside of the vessel wall; and
attaching, to the proximal end of the removable guidewire segment and via a coupling component, a distal end of a proximal guidewire extension, wherein there is a first smooth transition at a first juncture between the proximal guidewire extension and the coupling component and a second smooth transition at a second juncture between the removable guidewire segment and the coupling component.