DEVICES CONTAINING A SUTURE SLEEVE AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING

• US 20120150202A1
• Filed: 12/02/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Roger, Barker, John Michael, Smith, Ariadne Genevieve, Chinn, Kenny Kinyen
• Application Number:
  US13/310,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/148
• 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 2017/0412 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from suture anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0414 having a suture-receiving opening, e.g. lateral opening lateral eyelet for attaching suture to needle A61B2017/06019
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0427 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0429 the barbs being expanded by a mechanical mechanism which also locks them in the expanded state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0435 the barbs being separate elements mechanically linked to the anchor, e.g. by pivots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0445 cannulated, e.g. with a longitudinal through-hole for passage of an instrument
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0558 Anchoring or fixation means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2001/0582 Suture sleeves

Abstract

Implantable electrical stimulation leads, lead anchors and suture sleeves, as well as methods of making and using the leads, lead anchors, suture sleeves and electrical stimulation systems are described. The lead anchors and suture sleeves present a number of strategies for anchoring a lead within tissue of a patient.

Claims

1-40. -40. (canceled)

41. A suture sleeve comprising:

a plurality of tubular bodies, wherein each tubular body defines at least one lumen that is configured and arranged to receive a portion of a lead;

a coupling member that couples the plurality of tubular bodies and that is configured and arranged to that allow the tubular bodies to be manipulated during implantation and then resume their original orientation with respect to each other.

42. The suture sleeve of claim 41, wherein the coupling member comprises nitinol.

43. The suture sleeve of claim 41, wherein one or. more of the tubular bodies comprises one or more suture tabs and one or more suture holes disposed on each suture tab.

44. The suture sleeve of claim 41, wherein the at least one lumen is non-linear.

45. A suture sleeve comprising:

a suture sleeve base that comprises a top surface, a bottom surface and at least one side surface that couples the top surface and the bottom surface; and

one or more tubular bodies disposed on the suture sleeve base in a pre-determined arrangement, wherein each tubular body defines at least one lumen extending through the length of the tubular body and wherein each lumen is configured and arranged to receive at least a portion of a lead.

46. The suture sleeve of claim 45, wherein the suture sleeve base comprises a cut-out that extends from an edge of the suture sleeve base toward a center of the suture sleeve base.

47. The suture sleeve of claim 45, wherein the suture sleeve base comprises at least one suture hole that extends from the top surface of the suture sleeve base through the suture sleeve base to the bottom surface of the suture sleeve base.

48. The suture sleeve of claim 45, further comprising a porous material.

49. The suture sleeve of claim 48, wherein the porous material comprises a growth hormone or growth factor.

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59. A suture sleeve comprising:

two or more tubular bodies, wherein each tubular body defines at least one lumen extending through the length of the tubular body, wherein the at least one lumen is configured and arranged to receive a portion of a lead, and wherein the two or more tubular bodies intersect to form a cross shape.

60. The suture sleeve of claim 59, wherein the lumen of the first tubular body intersects the lumen of the second tubular body.

61. The suture sleeve of claim 59, wherein the lumen of the first tubular body does not intersect the lumen of the second tubular body.

62. The suture sleeve of claim 59, wherein at least one lumen is curved.