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An instrument for facilitating the formation of a knot in a flexible line having a first portion extending through a tissue/organ and first and second free ends projecting away from the first portion. The instrument has a body defining a passage through which the first and second free ends of the fl

An instrument for facilitating the formation of a knot in a flexible line having a first portion extending through a tissue/organ and first and second free ends projecting away from the first portion. The instrument has a body defining a passage through which the first and second free ends of the flexible line can be passed in a first direction to be exposed at a tying location on the body. First structure is provided on the body for supporting a suture loop defined by wrapping the first and second free ends of the flexible line around each other. Second structure is provided on the body, spaced from the first structure, for releasably holding one of the first and second free ends of the flexible line.

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An instrument for facilitating the formation of a knot in a flexible line having a first portion extending through a tissue/organ and first and second free ends projecting away from the first portion, said instrument comprising: a body defining a passage through which the first and second free ends

An instrument for facilitating the formation of a knot in a flexible line having a first portion extending through a tissue/organ and first and second free ends projecting away from the first portion, said instrument comprising: a body defining a passage through which the first and second free ends of the flexible line can be passed in a first direction to be exposed at a tying location on the body; repositionable first means on the body for supporting a suture loop defined by wrapping the first and second free ends of the flexible line around each other, said first means being repositionable between a) a first position wherein the first means supports a suture loop and b) a second position wherein a suture loop supported on the first means can be released from the first means; and second means on the body spaced from the first means for releasably holding one of the first and second free ends of the flexible line, whereby the other of the first and second free ends of the flexible line can be held and the loop contracted to cinch the tissue/organ through which the flexible line extends by directing at least one of the first and second free ends of the flexible line at the loop off of the first means and through the body passage in a direction opposite to the first direction.