Method and apparatus for correction for gynecological pathologies including treatment of female cystocele

• US 6,502,578 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2000
• Issued: 01/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ams Research Corporation (Endo International PLC)
• Inventors: Beyar, Mordechay, Globerman, Oren, Raz, Shlomo
• Primary Examiner(s): McDermott, Corrine
• Assistant Examiner(s): MATTHEWS, WILLIAM H
• Application Number:
  US09/748,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20010023356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• Field of Search: 128/898
• US Class Current: 128/898
• 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 17/06109 Big needles, either gripped by hand or connectable to a handle
• 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 2017/0417 T-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings

Abstract

The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for treatment of male incontinence and a method for female cystocele repair in which a sling material is positioned between the descending rami of the pubic bone. In such an operation a “hammock-like” sling material is positioned below the urethra in males, or below the posterior bladder wall in the case of cystocele in females.

Claims

1. A method for treatment of male incontinence comprising:

exposing a perineal region of a patient;

introducing a synthetic mesh sling material into the exposed perineal region;

arranging opposite sides of a middle region of said synthetic mesh sling such that said synthetic mesh sling is positioned between inner portions of opposing descending rami of a pubic bone below the urethra; and

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securing said synthetic mesh sling material so as to maintain the position of said synthetic mesh sling between said opposing descending rami to thereby treat the male incontinence.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein securing said synthetic mesh sling material includes the step of using tissue anchors.