Tissue shaping device with conformable anchors
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Dec 19, 2003
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May 2, 2003
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A tissue shaping device adapted to be disposed in a vessel near a patient's heart to reshape the patient's heart. In one embodiment, the tissue shaping device includes an expandable anchor adapted to contact a wall of the vessel with radially outward force, with the anchor including an expansion energy absorbing element, such as a bending point in a flexible wire anchor. The invention also includes a method of deploying a tissue shaping device in a vessel, in which the tissue shaping device includes an anchor and an expansion energy absorbing element. The method includes the steps of delivering the tissue shaping device to a treatment location within the vessel, expanding the anchor with anchor expansion energy to place a radially outward force on a wall of the vessel, and absorbing at least a portion of the expansion energy in the expansion energy absorbing element.
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