System for implanting an implant and method thereof

• US 20020156488A1
• Filed: 03/07/2002
• Published: 10/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Gellman, Barry N., Slanda, Jozef, Tah, Richard C., Morin, Armand
• Granted Patent: US 6,936,052 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/139
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00234 for minimally invasive surgery A61B17/0218, A61B17/0469, A61B17/12013, A61B17/1285, A61B17/29, A61B17/320016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06109 Big needles, either gripped by hand or connectable to a handle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3468 for implanting or removing devices, e.g. prostheses, implants, seeds, wires devices for implanting seeds A61M37/0069
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00805 Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06019 by means of a suture-receiving lateral eyelet machined in the needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06042 located close to needle tip
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06052 Needle-suture combinations in which a suture is extending inside a hollow tubular needle, e.g. over the entire length of the needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06076 helically or spirally coiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06171 helically or spirally coiled
• 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 2230/0019 rectangular
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2240/001 Designing or manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0087 colour-coded
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/25 Artificial sphincters and devices for controlling urinary incontinence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49995 Shaping one-piece blank by removing material

Abstract

A system for implanting an implant and method thereof is disclosed. In general overview, the system includes an implant, an envelope enclosing the implant, a delivery assembly and an attachment piece for attaching the envelope or implant to the delivery assembly. The envelope may include a drug coating, positioning aids, and means to ease envelope removal. In one embodiment, the delivery assembly is employed for implant and/or envelope delivery inside the patient'"'"'s body. In another embodiment, the delivery assembly and an attachment piece are employed to deliver the implant or the envelope inside the patient'"'"'s body.

Claims

1. A delivery assembly for delivering an implant to an anatomical site in the body of a patient, comprising:

a retractable point;

a delivery handle comprising a proximal button and a distal button;

said proximal button and said distal button operatively joined to the retractable point wherein each of the proximal button and the distal button move the retractable point in a plurality of positions.

2. The delivery assembly of claim 1 further comprising a cannula and a cannula lumen.

3. The delivery assembly of claim 2 wherein said cannula comprises an arc.

4. The delivery assembly of claim 2 wherein in one of said plurality of positions, said retractable point is positioned in said cannula lumen.

5. The delivery assembly of claim 1 further comprising a dilator tube.

6. The delivery assembly of claim 5 further comprising an extender button.

7. The delivery assembly of claim 6 wherein said extender button extends the dilator tube from the distal end of the handle and retracts the dilator tube into the handle.

8. The delivery assembly according to claim 5 wherein said dilator tube comprises a hollow member and a conical tip.

9. The delivery assembly according to claim 8 wherein said hollow member is configured whereby an attachment piece for joining said implant to said delivery assembly is seated in said hollow member.

10. The delivery assembly according to claim 8 further comprising a hinge for attaching said conical tip to said hollow member.

11. The delivery assembly according to claim 8 wherein said conical tip is positioned at a tissue piercing end of said delivery assembly.

12. The delivery assembly according to claim 8 wherein said conical tip further comprises an aperture.

13. The delivery assembly according to claim 5 wherein said dilator tube is actuateable by said delivery handle.

14. The delivery assembly according to claim 8 wherein said hollow member further comprises a rigid ring attached to the wall of the hollow member.

15. A method for delivering an implant to an anatomical site in the body of a patient, comprising:

providing a delivery assembly comprising a retractable point and a delivery handle comprising a proximal button and a distal button, said proximal button and said distal button operatively joined to the retractable point wherein each of the proximal button and the distal button move the retractable point in a plurality of positions;

moving the retractable point to an extended position; and

delivering said implant to said anatomical site in the body of the patient.

16. A delivery assembly for delivering an implant to an anatomical site in the body of a patient, comprising:

a handle means;

a retractable point;

a distal button means; and

a proximal button means;

said proximal button means and said distal button means operatively joined to the retractable point wherein each of the proximal button means and the distal button means move the retractable point from a first position to a second position.