Devices and methods for use in performing transmyocardial coronary bypass

摘要

This invention is a trans-myocardial bypass device including retractors (R) used to engage, to support myocardial tissue, and mechanisms (100) for supporting coronary vessels so as to allow precise entry into a vessel lumen. Conduits (240) are provided having a configuration that permits positioning in a heart wall to place a coronary vessel in communication with a heart chamber.