Mark Wildes - Bloomington MN, US Neil Stein - Plymouth MN, US
International Classification:
A61B017/08 A61F002/06
US Classification:
606/153000, 623/001150
Abstract:
A vasocasostomy stent of the present invention comprises an elongate tube including a wall defining an inner lumen and a plurality of apertures extending along a substantial length of the tube. A method of anastomosis for a vas deferens comprises inserting an apertured stent into free ends of a severed vas, slidingly advancing the free ends of the severed vas toward each other over the stent until the free ends are in abutment, and securing the free ends of the severed vas together over the stent.