SURGICAL DEVICES, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCESS FOR LAPAROSCOPICALLY ACCESSING, DISSECTING, RETRACTING OF, AND CUFF PLACEMENT ONTO A SPLENIC ARTERY VIA AN OVER-THE-WIRE APPROACH

摘要

The present disclosure relates to a method for installing a cuff around a target biological structure. The method may include inserting a guidewire through an incision in a patient underneath an exterior surface of a target biological structure, guiding a ramp device over the guidewire to a position underneath the target biological structure such that the target biological structure is partly supported by the ramp device, guiding a cuff deployment tool over the guidewire to the ramp device, the cuff deployment tool comprising an interior volume and a cuff positioned within the interior volume, and causing the cuff from the cuff deployment tool to deploy such that the cuff moves from within the interior volume to an extended position. At least part of the cuff is positioned between the ramp device and the target biological structure in the extended position.