Prosthetic device for the repair of a hernia

• US 6,241,768 B1
• Filed: 08/19/1998
• Issued: 06/05/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ethicon Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Ethicon Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Bustamante, Carlos, Agarwal, Vishvaroop, Kammerer, Gene W., Hill, Donald G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Willse, David H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): STEWART, ALVIN J
• Application Number:
  US09/136,036
• Time in Patent Office: 1,021 Days
• Field of Search: 623/11, 623/11.11, 128/112.1, 606/151, 606/215, 606/213
• US Class Current: 623/11.11
• 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 2017/00637 for sealing trocar wounds through abdominal wall
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00659 located only on one side of the opening
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0063 Implantable repair or support meshes, e.g. hernia meshes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/0068 having a special mesh pattern

Abstract

A prosthesis device for repairing a hernia having an insertion canal made of sheet material for extending through the hernia. The insertion canal is attached at one end to a collar and at the other end to a base that is to be on the inside of the abdominal cavity. The base may be a sheet or a pouch that is to be brought to bear on the inside the wall of the abdominal cavity. The insertion canal providing a simple way of deploying the sheet or pouch against the wall of a abdominal cavity.

Claims

1. A mesh prosthesis device to repair a hernia, the device consisting essentially of a canal insert having a proximal end and distal end;

the proximal end being attached to a collar and the distal end being attached to and covered by a base wherein a passage extends from the collar to the base to facilitate the placement of the device and wherein the canal insert, the collar, and the base comprise a non-absorbable or absorbable sheet material selected so as to be incorporated into tissue.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the base is a sheet.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein the base is a sheet composed of two layers.

4. A device according to claim 3, wherein the two layers form a pouch.

5. A device according to claim 4, wherein a path way is formed through the canal insert into the pouch.

6. A device according to claim 4, wherein the pouch is filled with a fiber or foam-type prosthetic material.

7. A device according to claim 1 wherein the collar is notched.

8. The device of claim 2 wherein the base is a sheet with a single layer and attached to and terminating the canal insert.