IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHODS OF DELIVERING THE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE

• US 20130281768A1
• Filed: 04/17/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Dolan, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 9,161,829 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/37
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings

Abstract

In one general aspect, a medical device can include a first elongate member made of a material and having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a first portion of a bodily portion within a body of a patient where the first elongate member has a distal end portion. The medical device can include a second elongate member made of the material and having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a second portion of the bodily portion where the first elongate member has a distal end portion. The medical device can also include a third elongate member having a proximal end portion in contact with and coupled to the distal end portion of the first elongate member and in contact with and coupled to the distal end portion of the second elongate member.

Claims

1. A medical device, comprising:

a first elongate member having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the proximal end portion of the first elongate member configured to be attached to a first portion of a bodily portion within a body of a patient;

a second elongate member having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the proximal end portion of the second elongate member configured to be attached to a second portion of the bodily portion; and

a third elongate member having a proximal end portion, the proximal end portion having a first side coupled to a surface of the distal end portion of the first elongate member and having a second side coupled to a surface of the distal end portion of the second elongate member such that the proximal end portion of the first elongate member and the proximal end portion of the second elongate member are on a proximal end of the medical device opposite a distal end of the medical device including a distal edge of the third elongate member.

2. The medical device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first elongate member or the second elongate member includes a biologic material, the third elongate member includes a synthetic material.

3. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the third elongate member is made of a material different from a material included in at least one of the first elongate member or the second elongate member.

4. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the third elongate member has a flat, rectangular medial portion between the distal edge of the third elongate member and the proximal end portion of the third elongate member.

5. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the proximal end portion of the third elongate member is coupled to the distal end portion of the first elongate member and the distal end portion of the second elongate member via at least one suture piercing through the proximal end portion of the third elongate member, through the distal end portion of the first elongate member, and through the distal end portion of the second elongate member.

6. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the proximal end portion of the third elongate member is coupled to the surface of the distal end portion of the first elongate member and to the surface of the distal end portion of the second elongate member by a suture including an x-shape pattern.

7. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the first side of the proximal end portion has a width approximately equal to a width of the surface of the distal end portion.

8. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the first elongate member, the second elongate member, and the third elongate member each have a length greater than half of an overall length of the medical device.

9. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the first elongate member, the second elongate member, and third elongate member are aligned along a longitudinal axis.

10. The medical device of claim 1, wherein the third elongate member includes a placement feature aligned along a longitudinal axis of the third elongate member and configured to facilitate placement of the third elongate member into the body of the patient.

11. The medical device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first elongate member or the second elongate member includes a plurality of openings configured as a visual guide to facilitate placement of the medical device into the body of the patient.

12. The medical device of claim 1, further comprising:

a fourth elongate member made of a material included in at least one of the first elongate member, the second elongate member, or the third elongate member, the fourth elongate member coupled to the distal end portion of the third elongate member.

13. A medical device, comprising:

a first elongate member made of a material and having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a first portion of a bodily portion within a body of a patient, the first elongate member having a distal end portion;

a second elongate member made of the material and having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a second portion of the bodily portion, the first elongate member having a distal end portion; and

a third elongate member having a proximal end portion in contact with and coupled to the distal end portion of the first elongate member and in contact with and coupled to the distal end portion of the second elongate member.

14. The medical device of claim 13, wherein the third elongate member has a distal end portion configured to be attached to a sacrum of the patient.

15. The medical device of claim 13, wherein the first portion of the bodily portion is an anterior vaginal wall, and the second portion of the bodily portion is a posterior vaginal wall.

16. The medical device of claim 13, wherein the third elongate member is fixedly coupled to the distal end portion of the first elongate member and fixedly coupled to the distal end portion of the second elongate member via a set of sutures such that the proximal end portion of the third elongate member is disposed between the distal end portion of the first elongate member and the distal end portion of the second elongate member.

17. The medical device of claim 13, wherein the first elongate member has a length substantially equal to a length of the second elongate member.

18. The medical device of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first elongate member, the second elongate member, or the third elongate member is made of a polypropylene material.

19. The medical device of claim 13, wherein the material is a Xenograft material.

20. A method, comprising:

disposing a proximal end portion of a first elongate member between a distal end portion of a second elongate member and a distal end portion of a third elongate member such that the second elongate member and the third elongate member are aligned along a longitudinal axis of the first elongate member,

the second elongate member having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a first portion of a bodily portion within a body of patient, the third elongate member having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a second portion of the bodily portion; and

coupling a first side of the proximal end portion of the first elongate member to the distal end portion of the second elongate member and a second side of the proximal end portion of the first elongate member to the distal end portion of the third elongate member, the first elongate member being made of a material different than at least one of the second elongate member or the third elongate member.