Surgical clips, and methods of use thereof, are provided for tissue
approximation and attachment, and more particularly, for sealingly
joining a graft vessel to a target vessel. The graft vessel has a free
end and a graft vessel wall defining a graft lumen. The target vessel has
a target vessel wall defining a target lumen and has an opening in the
target vessel wall. The anastomosis clip includes a clip body having a
distal extremity with a distal end and a proximal extremity with a
proximal end. The distal end is configured to penetrate through the graft
vessel wall near the free end and through the target vessel wall near the
opening such that both the distal and proximal ends of the clip body are
outside the graft and target vessels. At least a portion of the clip body
is shapable so as to compress the graft vessel wall against the target
vessel wall with the target vessel lumen in communication with the graft
vessel lumen.