Suturing assembly and method

Abstract

Abstract A slotted, partially-flared, cylindrically shaped core (12) is mounted inside a tubularly-shaped sleeve (20) with a flared end portion (16) extending out the end of the sleeve (20). A flexible needle (24), which is longer than either the core or the sleeve, is held in each of the core slots (18) by the sleeve, but is allowed freedom of longitudinal movement. Threads (32) attached to the needles are inserted through a wall of a tubular body duct by inserting the flared end portion of the core into the body duct and then forcing the needles to move longitudinally in the slots against the flared end portion so that they bend radially outwardly through the walls of the body duct.

Inventors

• 👤 Disamodha C. Amarasinghe

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