Wilhelmus Joseph Leonardus Suyker,Paulus Thomas Wilhelmus Suyker
申请号:
US12348139
公开号:
US08858579B2
申请日:
2009.01.02
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要:
A method for performing a coronary artery bypass graft procedure on a patient to connect a bypass vessel to a target vessel includes the steps of creating an opening in the patient that communicates with the thoracic cavity of the patient providing a bypass vessel having a lumen and at least one free end passing the free end of the bypass vessel from the thoracic cavity through the opening to a position outside the body of the patient attaching a connector to the free end of bypass vessel while the free end of the bypass vessel is outside the body of the patient passing the free end of the bypass vessel from the position outside the body of the patient through the opening and into the thoracic cavity and connecting the free end of the bypass vessel to a target vessel with the connector.