Surgical clip and clip application procedures

• US 5,366,459 A
• Filed: 09/18/1991
• Issued: 11/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inbae Yoon
• Original Assignee: Inbae Yoon
• Inventors: Yoon, Inbae
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellegrino, Stephen C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jackson, Gary
• Application Number:
  US07/719,281
• Time in Patent Office: 1,161 Days
• Field of Search: 606/151-158, 24/543, 24/545, 24/23 W, 24/546
• US Class Current: 606/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0057 Implements for plugging an opening in the wall of a hollow or tubular organ, e.g. for sealing a vessel puncture or closing a cardiac septal defect sutures A61B17/04; closing rectum or urethra near body surface A61F2/0009
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0469 Suturing instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0487 Suture clamps, clips or locks, e.g. for replacing suture knots; Instruments for applying or removing suture clamps, clips or locks suture anchors A61B17/0401; wound clamps or clips A61B17/08; ligaturing clamps or clips A61B17/122
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/064 Surgical staples, i.e. penetrating the tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0643 with separate closing member, e.g. for interlocking with staple
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1114 of the digestive tract, e.g. bowels or oesophagus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/122 Clamps or clips , e.g. for the umbilical cord for the vas deferens A61F6/206
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1285 for minimally invasive surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00004 (bio)absorbable, (bio)resorbable, resorptive for implantable prostheses A61F2210/0004
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00663 the implement being a suture
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00668 the implement being a tack or a staple
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0462 One way system, i.e. also tensioning the suture
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/047 having at least one proximally pointing needle located at the distal end of the instrument, e.g. for suturing trocar puncture wounds starting from inside the body J-shaped suture needles A61B2017/0608
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0488 Instruments for applying suture clamps, clips or locks for applying suture anchors A61B2017/0409; for applying wound clamps A61B17/10; for applying ligaturing clamps or clips A61B17/128
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0496 for tensioning sutures
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0641 having at least three legs as part of one single body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/081 Tissue approximator A61B2017/1103, A61B17/8866 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1107 for blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2837 with a locking ratchet

Abstract

A variety of configurations for suture tie devices and suture tie device applicators, as well as methods of suturing, are disclosed. The suture tie devices generally include at least one leg member having a curved or angled distal, tissue engaging portion. A tying member unidirectionally or bidirectionally displaceable along the leg member can optionally be provided. Engagement of a leg distal portion with a generally opposed leg distal portion or the tying member forms a suture loop which positions organ or tissue material between the curved or angled legs and the tying member. The tying member can be advanced toward the leg member so as to provide a variable extent of suture tension. Apparatus for installing the suture tie devices and suturing methods are also disclosed.

Claims

1. An adjsutably tensionalbe surgical clip, comprising:

an elongated member comprised of at least one pair of first and second leg members, each of the leg members having a proximal portion and a distal portion having a tissue engaging portion which terminates at a distal end, a longitudinal channel means formed along at least a part of one of the leg members for engaging and retaining a corresponding part of the other leg member, the respective proximal portions of each leg member pair being pivotably connected to one another to permit relative displacement of the leg members, the distal portion of at least one leg member of each leg member pair being bendable relative to the distal portion of the other leg member of the pair to effect approximation of the leg member distal ends to close the clip prior to relative pivotable displacement of the leg members.

2. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the elongated member is at least partially comprised of a bioabsorbable material.

3. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the elongated member is at least partially comprised of titanium.

4. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the elongated member is at least partially comprised of a surgical grade of stainless steel.

5. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the first and second leg members are formed from different materials.

6. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the distal end of said first leg member comprises receptacle means for receiving the distal end of the second leg member.

7. A suture tie device as recited in claim 6, wherein said channel means includes a channel defined in the second leg member that extend from said distal portion toward said proximal portion, said channel being dimensioned to receive therein the first leg member.

8. A surgical clip as recited in claim 7, wherein at least a portion of said leg member channel and at least a portion of the first leg member comprise mutually engageable interlocking means.

9. A surgical clip as recited in claim 8, wherein said interlocking means comprises a plurality of outwardly-extending ridges formed on one of the leg members and a plurality of inwardly-extending grooves formed on the other of the leg members.

10. A surgical clip as recited in claim 7, wherein said second leg member defining said channel is resiliently deformable to receive said first leg member.

11. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the first and second leg members are formed as a unitary member.

12. A surgical as recited in claim 1, wherein the proximal portion of the first leg member comprises a sleeve member defining a lumen dimensioned to receivably retain the proximal portion of the second leg member.

13. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the leg members has a substantially linear configuration prior to distal end bending.

14. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the channel si resiliently deformable to receive the other leg member.

15. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the leg members has a curved configuration prior to distal end bending.

16. A surgical clip as recited in either of claim 1, wherein said first and second legs are progressively displaceable toward one another from the distal end thereof toward a leg proxmal end.

17. A surgical clip as recited in either of claim 1 the legs members being progressively displaceable toward one another following clip closure from a proximal end thereof toward the leg distal ends.

18. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein the respective distal ends of the leg member distal portions comprise means for interlockingly engaging one another.

19. A surgical clip as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one leg member of the pair is predisposed along a distal end thereof so as to extend toward a distal end of the other leg of the leg pair.

20. An adjustably tensionable surgical clip, comprising:

an elongated member comprised of at least one pair of first and second leg members, each of the leg members having a proximal portion and a distal portion having a tissue engaging portion which terminates at a distal end, at least one of the leg member including engaging and retaining means comprising a complementary arrangement of mutually engageable members formed along at least a section of each leg member, the mutually engageable members comprising a plurality of ridges formed on one leg member and a plurality of grooves formed along the other of the leg members, the grooves being dimensioned to retainably receive the plurality of ridges, the respective proximal portions of each leg member pair being pivotably connected to one another to permit relative displacement of the leg members, the distal portion of at leas tone leg member of each leg member pair being bendable relative to the distal portion of the other leg member of the pair to effect approximation of the leg member distal ends to close the clip prior to relative pivotable displacement of the leg members.