Method for treating urinary incontinence in women and implantable device intended to correct urinary incontinence

• US 6,638,211 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2002
• Issued: 10/28/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Original Assignee: Mentor Corporation (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Delorme, Emmanuel, Suslian, Patrice
• Primary Examiner(s): Hindenburg, Max F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cadugan, Joseph A.
• Application Number:
  US10/092,069
• Publication Number:
  US 20020099260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 600/29-32, 600/37, 606/141, 128/DIG.25
• US Class Current: 600/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00805 Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0036 implantable A61F2/0018 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/009 for hindering or preventing attachment of biological tissue of bone tissue onto implantable joints A61F2002/30932

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and device for treating urinary incontinence in women.

Claims

1. Method for treating urinary incontinence in women, comprising:

making a median paraurethral incision, practically in the middle third of the urethra, measured from the meatus, so as to allow the passage of an implant in the form of a tape between the Alban fascia and the periurethral fascias;

extending each of the free ends of said tape in the region of two obturator foramen of the iliac wing and leading them out into the groin opposite the corresponding foramen so that they essentially form a V shape, the point of which V passes under the urethra without changing the position thereof.

2. Method for treating urinary incontinence in women according to claim 1, characterized in that in order to make it easier to fit the tape which acts as an implant, a space is made between, on the one hand, the Alban fascia, the perineal muscular plane and the anterior insertion of the puborectal muscle and, on the other hand, the periurethral fascias.

3. Method for treating urinary incontinence in women according to claim 2, characterized in that the central region of the tape or implant, which region is intended to be inserted between the Alban fascia and the periurethral fascias, is coated with a substance capable of preventing any adhesion of the said fascias to the tape.

4. Method for treating urinary incontinence in women according to claim 1, characterized in that the central region of the tape or implant, which region is intended to be inserted between the Alban fascia and the periurethral fascias, is coated with a substance capable of preventing any adhesion of the said fascias to the tape.