System for implanting an implant and method thereof

• US 20030009181A1
• Filed: 03/07/2002
• Published: 01/09/2003
• 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 7,235,043 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/151
• 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. An attachment piece for joining an implant to a delivery assembly, comprising:

a first member, said implant bonded to said first member, said first member engageable with a dilator tube, wherein said first member is seated within said dilator tube to join said implant to said delivery assembly.

2. The attachment piece of claim 1 wherein said first member comprises an appendage, said implant being bonded to said appendage.

3. The attachment piece of claim 2 wherein said appendage is positioned between a first portion and a second portion of said first member.

4. The attachment piece of claim 3 wherein said second portion of said first member is sized and shaped to fit within a lumen of said dilator tube.

5. The attachment piece of claim 1 wherein said first member comprises a first end, said first end comprising at least one slit.

6. The attachment piece of claim 1 wherein said first member comprises a cylinder.

7. The attachment piece of claim 2 wherein said appendage comprises a free end, said free end of said appendage bonded to an implant.

8. The attachment piece of claim 7 wherein said implant comprises a sling.

9. The attachment piece of claim 8 wherein said sling is used for the treatment of female urinary incontinence.

10. The attachment piece of claim 7 wherein said free end is heat bonded to said implant.

11. The attachment piece of claim 7 wherein said free end is adhesive bonded to said implant.

12. The attachment piece of claim 1 wherein materials used to manufacture said appendage and said first member comprise polyethylene or polyethylene copolymer.

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

providing an attachment piece comprising;

a first member, said implant bonded to said first member, said first member engageable with a dilator tube, wherein said first member is seated within said dilator tube to join said implant to a delivery assembly; and

delivering said implant at said anatomical site in said patient.

14. An attachment piece for joining an implant to a delivery assembly and delivering the implant to an anatomical site in a patient, the attachment piece comprising:

a first member means, said implant bonded to said first member means, said first member means engageable with a dilator tube, wherein said first member means is seated within said dilator tube to join said implant to said delivery assembly.

15. An attachment piece for joining an envelope for enclosing an implant to a delivery assembly, comprising:

a first member, said first member bonded to said envelope, said first member engageable with a dilator tube, wherein said first member is seated within said dilator tube to join said envelope to said delivery assembly.