SURGICAL IMPLANTABLE STABILIZER SLING FOR BASAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY

• US 20100106254A1
• Filed: 10/09/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jeanne L. DelSignore
• Original Assignee: Jeanne L. DelSignore
• Inventors: DelSignore, Jeanne L.
• Application Number:
  US12/577,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20100106254A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/21.150
• 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 17/06066 Needles, e.g. needle tip configurations making needles B21G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06166 Sutures suture materials A61L17/00; manufacture of artificial threads D01D; treatment of threads D06M
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/82 for bone cerclage apparatus for manipulating wires or straps A61B17/8861; wires, bands or straps other than cerclage A61B17/842
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/826 Nets or webs
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0427 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/08 Muscles; Tendons; Ligaments sutures A61B17/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0811 Fixation devices for tendons or ligaments
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/4241 for hands, e.g. fingers
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/4253 for thumbs

Abstract

The concepts disclosed herein offer a new simple and reliable reconstructive option for the treatment of first carpal-metacarpal joint (basal joint) arthritis and consists of an intra-articular basal joint stabilizer sling combined with a surgical method of implantation.

Claims

1. An implantable sling for use in basal joint arthroplasty having a central section and at least one suture woven into said center section, the improvement comprising:

at least one suture anchor embedded in at least one edge of said center section.

2. The sling according to claim 1, wherein said suture is attached to at least one suture anchor.

3. The sling according to claim 1, wherein said suture is attached to at least one surgical needle.

4. The sling according to claim 1, wherein said suture is a long lasting absorbable suture.

5. The sling according to claim 1, wherein the center section has a quadrilateral, elliptical, or regular polygonal shape.

6. The sling according to claim 1, wherein the center section is made from a terminally sterile material.

7. The sling according to claim 1, wherein the center section is made from a biologic material.

8. The sling according to claim 1, wherein the center section is made from a porous material.

9. The sling according to claim 1, wherein the center section is made from a non-porous material.

10. The sling according to claim 1, wherein the center section is made from combination of materials Including a long lasting absorbable weave.

11. An implantable sling for use in basal joint arthroplasty having a central section and at least one suture woven into said center section, the improvement comprising:

at least one surgical needle attached to at least one said suture.

12. The sling according to claim 11, wherein said suture is a long lasting absorbable suture.

13. The sling according to claim 11, wherein the center section has a quadrilateral, elliptical, or regular polygonal shape.

14. The sling according to claim 11, wherein the center section is made from a terminally sterile material.

15. The sling according to claim 11, wherein the center section is made from a biologic material.

16. The sling according to claim 11, wherein the center section is made from a porous material.

17. The sling according to claim 11, wherein the center section is made from a non-porous material.

18. The sling according to claim 11, wherein the center section is made from combination of materials Including a long lasting absorbable weave.