An apparatus for reversely deactivating a port seal in a laparoscopic port and providing a continuous passage between the laparoscopic port and a remote location in a body cavity.

The present disclosure relates to a device for assisting in communicably coupling a first organ body with a second organ body by employing a plurality of arc-shaped tissue connector devices comprising a tissue connector body with a proximal and distal end, and a method for manufacturing such a device. The device comprises a curved frame having a principle axis and configured to embrace, at least partially, the first organ body, the curved frame configured to receive a plurality of tissue connector devices which extend from a proximal end thereof coupled to the curved frame and terminate in a free distal end. The disclosure further relates to a tissue connector device, a holder for tissue connector devices and a tissue-collar manipulating device, and a method of coupling a first and a second organ body using such device.

A system including a bone punch tool and a needle guide. The bone punch tool can include a support arm having a support arm proximal portion and a support arm distal portion, a pivot arm having a pivot arm proximal portion and a pivot arm distal portion, and an arcuate punch configured to punch through bone. The pivot arm distal portion can be pivotably coupled to the support arm distal portion, such that the pivot arm proximal portion is configured to be moved away from the support arm proximal portion to extend the arcuate punch into a punch position to punch an arcuate hole through bone. The needle guide can be configured to guide a needle through the arcuate hole.

A method for locking an intrabody implant over a thread passing through the implant. The method includes advancing a lock body, which includes at least one rotatable element, to the implant over the thread. Subsequently to advancing the lock body to the implant, the rotatable element is rotated such that the lock body grips the thread proximally to the implant.

A medical tube is disclosed, which is configured to have an elongated implant inserted in the medical tube. The medical tube includes a tube having a proximal end opening where the tube is open at a proximal end of the tube. The tube can include a bent region where an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction of the tube is bent and where a bent state is maintained, and a connection portion which is provided near the proximal end opening and to which a puncture needle having a sharp needle tip at a distal end of the puncture needle is connected from a needle tip side.

A medical tube is disclosed, which includes a tubular main body curved in a circular arc shape. The main body has a flat shape as a cross-sectional shape at a central portion in the longitudinal direction thereof. The main body has a flat shape including a minor axis and a major axis as a cross-sectional shape at the central portion in the longitudinal direction thereof. The angle formed between the minor axis and a plane containing both a center point of the circular arc in the central portion and a center point of the cross-sectional shape with respect to the longitudinal direction of the main body is an acute angle. The angle is preferably 20 to 60. The medical tube thus configured is for use in treatment of a disorder in a pelvic organ, by indwelling an implant between a urethral lumen and a vaginal cavity.

An arthroscopic bone tunneling and suturing device including a bone-engaging needle driving assembly including a bone-engaging needle and being adapted for arthroscopic insertion into engagement with a patient's bone at a first bone location through an arthroscopic incision and for driving the needle forwardly along a generally arcuate tunneling path through the bone at least to a second bone location and a bone-engaging pin driving assembly arranged for operative engagement with the bone-engaging needle driving assembly and being adapted for arthroscopic insertion into engagement with a patient's bone at a third bone location through the arthroscopic incision.

A medical tube is disclosed, which can include a main body in which a distal portion of a tubular proximal separable piece is detachably connected to a proximal portion of a tubular distal separable piece; and a state maintaining mechanism for maintaining a connected state of the distal separable piece and the proximal separable piece. In addition, the main body is inserted into a body starting from the distal separable piece side, and is disposed inside the body in a state in which a distal end and a proximal end thereof are exposed outside of the body. In addition, the state maintaining mechanism can include a string which is disposed inside the main body and interlocks the distal separable piece and the proximal separable piece, and the connected state can be released by cutting the string.

A method for beneficially displacing a papillary muscle, the method comprising: anchoring one end of an implant suture to a trigone or central fibrous body of the mitral valve; passing another end of the implant suture through a papillary muscle so that the implant suture extends between a trigone or central fibrous body of the mitral valve and the papillary muscle; tensioning the implant suture while displacing the papillary muscle toward the trigone or central fibrous body of the mitral valve; and securing the tensioned implant suture to the displaced papillary muscle so as to maintain the displaced papillary muscle in position relative to the trigone or central fibrous body of the mitral valve; wherein the foregoing steps of anchoring, passing, tensioning and securing are all effected while the heart is beating.

The present disclosure relates to a device for assisting in communicably coupling a first organ body with a second organ body by employing a plurality of arc-shaped tissue connector devices comprising a tissue connector body with a proximal and distal end, and a method for manufacturing such a device. The device comprises a curved frame having a principle axis and configured to embrace, at least partially, the first organ body, the curved frame configured to receive a plurality of tissue connector devices which extend from a proximal end thereof coupled to the curved frame and terminate in a free distal end. The disclosure further relates to a tissue connector device, a holder for tissue connector devices and a tissue-collar manipulating device, and a method of coupling a first and a second organ body using such device.