Devices and methods for tissue acquisition and fixation, or gastroplasty,
are described. Generally, the devices of the system may be advanced in a
minimally invasive manner within a patient's body, e.g., transorally,
endoscopically, percutaneously, etc., to create one or several divisions
or plications within the hollow body organ. Such divisions or plications
can form restrictive barriers within a organ, or can be placed to form a
pouch, or gastric lumen, smaller than the remaining stomach volume to
essentially act as the active stomach such as the pouch resulting from a
surgical Roux-En-Y gastric bypass procedure. Moreover, the system is
configured such that once acquisition of the tissue by the gastroplasty
device is accomplished, any manipulation of the acquired tissue is
unnecessary as the device is able to automatically configure the acquired
tissue into a desired configuration.