Adjustable Prosthetic Band

• US 20070239195A1
• Filed: 05/17/2005
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Nocca
• Original Assignee: David Nocca
• Inventors: Nocca, David
• Application Number:
  US11/597,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239195A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/191
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/0003 Apparatus for the treatment of obesity; Anti-eating devices surgical instruments or methods for treatment of obesity, devices specially adapted therefor A61B17/00; hollow or tubular parts of organs A61F2/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/005 Gastric bands

Abstract

The invention concerns a band comprising several perpendicular graduations (7, 8) on the first large side (2) and spaced apart from one another along the direction parallel to the first large side, respectively first and second graduation holes (6) being associated with each graduation, and two first and second suturing holes (9) are arranged in a second section (1) of the band.

Claims

1. A flexible, nonextensible band, having a large side and an imaginary mean perpendicular of the first large side, made of a material which is resorbable longer than two years and colonizable by fibroblasts, wherein, on a same surface and on a first piece of the band situated on a first side of the mean perpendicular of the band, there are several graduation lines perpendicular to the first large side and, at a distance from each other in a direction parallel to the first large side, two first and second graduation holes respectively being associated with each graduation line, and two first and second suture holes are made in a second piece of the band, situated on a second side of the mean perpendicular to the first large side.

2. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second graduation holes associated with the same graduation line are at the same distance, the one from the first large side and the other from an opposite large side.

3. The band as claimed in claim 2 wherein the first graduation holes are aligned in a direction parallel to the first large side.

4. The band as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second graduation holes are aligned in a direction parallel to the first large side.

5. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first suture hole is aligned with the first graduation holes (6A) in a direction parallel to the first large side.

6. The band as claimed in claim 5, wherein the second suture hole is aligned with the second graduation holes in a direction parallel to the first side.

7. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the graduation lines are equidistant.

8. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the graduation holes are tangent to their line.

9. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the distance between the first suture hole and the first graduation hole closest to it is 5 cm, and the distance between each graduation line is 1 cm.

10. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the several graduation lines comprises at least three graduation lines.

11. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein the width of each graduation line is in a range between approximately 0.2 mm to approximately 1 mm.

12. The band as claimed in claim 1, wherein each graduation line extends substantially across the width of the band.

13. A method for treatment of obeseity, in which a distal end of a gastric pouch and an intestine is encirled by a band according to claim 1, wherein the band is closed into a ring by passing a suture thread through a graduation hole and a suture hole, that is superimposed on the graduation hole.

14. A flexible band, comprising:

a strip of material having a first edge long and a surface, the strip having an imaginary line extending perpendicular to the first long edge at approximately a middle of the strip to define a first section on one side of the middle and a second section on another side of the middle; and

a plurality of spaced-apart graduation lines extending substantially perpendicular to the first long edge and disposed on the surface in the second section.

15. The band as claimed in claim 14, further comprising a plurality of graduation holes, each hole associated with a respective graduation line.

16. The band as claimed in claim 15, wherein the plurality of graduation holes comprises a plurality of sets of graduation holes, each set of graduation holes comprising first and second graduation holes, each set of graduation holes being associated with a respective graduation line.

17. The band as claimed in claim 15, further comprising at least one suture hole disposed in the first section.

18. The band as claimed in claim 17, wherein the at least one suture hole comprises first and second suture holes.

19. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein the strip is nonextensible.

20. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein the strip is formed of a material that is adapted to be completely resorbed after two years.

21. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein the strip is formed of a material that is adapted to be colonizable by fibroblasts.

22. The band as claimed in claim 15, wherein the graduation holes are aligned in a direction parallel to the first long edge.

23. The band as claimed in claim 17, wherein the suture hole is aligned with the graduation holes in a direction parallel to the first long edge.

24. The band as claimed in claim 15, wherein each graduation hole is arranged tangent to a corresponding graduation line.

25. The band as claimed in claim 17, wherein a distance between the suture hole and a first graduation hole that is disposed closest to the suture hole is approximately 5 cm.

26. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein a distance between each graduation line is approximately 1 cm.

27. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein the plurality of graduation lines comprises at least three graduation lines.

28. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein a width of each graduation line is in a range between approximately 0.2 mm to approximately 1 mm.

29. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein each graduation line extends substantially across a width of the strip.

30. The band as claimed in claim 14, wherein the strip is formed of a resorbable material.

31. A surgical method comprising:

providing a band formed of a strip of material having a first long edge and a surface, the strip having an imaginary line extending perpendicular to the first long edge at approximately a middle of the strip to define a first section on one side of the middle and a second section on another side of the middle and a plurality of spaced-apart graduation lines extending substantially perpendicular to a first long edge and disposed on the surface in the second section, each graduation line having a corresponding graduation hole, the band having a suture hole disposed in the first section;

encircling a gastro-intestinal organ with the band such that the suture hole aligns with one of the graduation holes; and

passing a suture through the graduation hole and the aligned suture hole.

32. The method as claimed in claim 31, wherein providing the band comprises providing a band formed of a strip of resorbable material.