SYSTEM FOR INTRODUCING A PELVIC IMPLANT

• US 20120143000A1
• Filed: 01/27/2012
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Original Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Inventors: Browning, James
• Granted Patent: US 8,469,877 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00491 Surgical glue applicators surgical adhesives A61L24/00; two-component delivery syringes A61M5/19
• 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 17/0469 Suturing instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06066 Needles, e.g. needle tip configurations making needles B21G1/00
• 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 2017/0409 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 2017/0417 T-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0427 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/39 Markers, e.g. radio-opaque or breast lesions markers
• 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 2002/0072 Delivery tools therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0016 with sharp anchoring protrusions, e.g. barbs, pins, spikes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0031 made from both resorbable and non-resorbable prosthetic parts, e.g. adjacent parts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0051 differing in tissue ingrowth capacity, e.g. made from both ingrowth-promoting and ingrowth-preventing parts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A system for supporting an anatomical structure of the pelvis includes a surgical implant for providing support to the anatomical structure of the pelvis. The surgical implant includes a first tissue anchor including a plurality of projections adapted for tissue fixation, a second tissue anchor including a plurality of projections adapted for tissue fixation, and a sub-urethral support having first and second ends, the first and second tissue anchors extending from the first and second ends of the sub-urethral support. The system also includes an introducer for delivering the first tissue anchor to a desired anchoring site of the pelvis.

Claims

1. A system for supporting an anatomical structure of the pelvis, the system comprising:

a surgical implant for providing support to the anatomical structure of the pelvis, the surgical implant including;

a first soft tissue anchor including a plurality of projections adapted for tissue fixation;

a second tissue anchor including a plurality of projections adapted for soft-tissue fixation; and

a sub-urethral support having first and second ends, the first and second tissue anchors extending from the first and second ends of the sub-urethral support; and

an introducer for delivering the first tissue anchor to a desired anchoring site of the pelvis, the introducer being substantially elongate and extending from a first end to a second end, the introducer including a handle at the first end and a tip at the second end, the tip having a recess such that the tip defines a first prong and a second prong separated by the recess for receiving the first tissue anchor with at least a portion of the tip passing through the first tissue anchor for penetrating soft tissue.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the prongs of the introducer has an angled end.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the introducer is configured to maintain the projections of the first tissue anchor in a pre-determined orientation relative to the introducer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the prongs define a semi-blunt point.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the introducer is adapted to receive the first tissue anchor between the first and second prongs.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the Up of the first tissue anchor is tapered toward the distal end of the first tissue anchor.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second tissue anchors are secured directly to the sub-urethral support.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the elongate shaft is curved. 9, The system of claim 8, wherein the elongate shaft of the introducer is curved through an angle of about 30 degrees.