Patent foramen ovale closure method

摘要

The present invention relates to devices for closing passageway in a body, for example a patent foramen oval (PFO) in a heart, and related methods of using suc closure devices for closing the passageway. The metho includes introducing a mechanical closure device into a atrium of the heart and transeptally deploying th closure device across the interatrial septum to provid proximation of the septum secundum and septum primum.