Surgical device implantable to treat female urinary incontinence

• US 10,449,025 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2018
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Original Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Inventors: Browning, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Lacyk, John P
• Application Number:
  US15/949,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20180228589A1
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 600 29- 31, 600 37, 128DIG 25
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0401 Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors A61B17/0642 takes precedence; fixation devices for tendons or ligaments A61F2/0811
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06109 Big needles, either gripped by hand or connectable to a handle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00805 Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0409 Instruments for applying suture anchors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0412 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from suture anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0414 having a suture-receiving opening, e.g. lateral opening
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0417 T-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0427 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0435 the barbs being separate elements mechanically linked to the anchor, e.g. by pivots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0063 Implantable repair or support meshes, e.g. hernia meshes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0067 conical
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0007 for adjusting length

Abstract

A surgical device that is implantable to treat female urinary incontinence includes a support, a first suspending member connected to the support, a second suspending member connected to the support, a first anchor connected to the first suspending member, and a second anchor connected to the second suspending member. Microgrooves are formed in a surface of at least one of the first suspending member and the second suspending member.

Claims

1. A surgical device implantable to treat female urinary incontinence, the surgical device comprising:

a support;

a first suspending member connected to the support and a second suspending member connected to the support; and

a first anchor connected to the first suspending member and a second anchor connected to the second suspending member;

wherein microgrooves are formed in a surface of at least one of the first suspending member and the second suspending member.

2. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves have a width in a range from 0.5 micrometers to 7 micrometers.

3. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves have a width of 5 micrometers.

4. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves have a depth in a range from 0.25 micrometers to 7 micrometers.

5. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves have a depth of 5 micrometers.

6. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves have a width of 5 micrometers and a depth of 5 micrometers.

7. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves is separated from an adjacent microgroove by a ridge having a width in a range from 1 micrometer to 5 micrometers.

8. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves is separated from an adjacent microgroove by a ridge having a width of 5 micrometers.

9. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein each of the microgrooves is separated from an adjacent microgroove by a ridge, with the ridge formed by a pillar, and a base of the microgroove is perpendicular to the pillar.

10. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein the microgrooves are parallel.

11. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the first suspending member and the second suspending member has a first face surface opposite of a second face surface, and the microgrooves are formed in one of the first face surface and the second face surface.

12. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the first suspending member and the second suspending member has a first face surface opposite of a second face surface, and the microgrooves are formed in the first face surface and the second face surface.

13. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein the first suspending member is connected to a first end of the support and the second suspending member is connected to a second end of the support, with the first end of the support located opposite from the second end of the support.

14. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein a distance measured along the first suspending member between the first anchor and the support is adjustable.

15. The surgical device of claim 1, further comprising:

an element coupled to the second suspending member, where the element operates to secure the second suspending member to thus fix a length of the second suspending member between the second anchor and the support.

16. The surgical device of claim 1, wherein a distance measured along.