Extractable filler for inserting medicine into vertebral body

• US 7,175,629 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2004
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Crosstrees Medical, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Crosstrees Medical, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Kwan Ku, Yuan, Philip S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sirmons; Kevin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WITCZAK, CATHERINE
• Application Number:
  US10/949,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20050143688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• Field of Search: 604 57- 64, 604/93.01, 604/500, 604/502, 606/92, 606/93, 606/94, 606/86, 623/17.12
• US Class Current: 606/86.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3431 being collapsible, e.g. made of thin flexible material A61B17/3423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3468 for implanting or removing devices, e.g. prostheses, implants, seeds, wires devices for implanting seeds A61M37/0069
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7098 wherein the implant is permeable or has openings, e.g. fenestrated screw hollow surgical screws A61B17/864
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8811 characterised by the introducer tip, i.e. the part inserted into or onto the bone
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8855 inflatable, e.g. kyphoplasty balloons
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 31/00 Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body A61M25/00 takes precedence ; introducing or retaining ophthalmic products into the ocular cavities A61F9/0008

Abstract

An extractable device is used to insert a medicinal filling into a vertebral body. The device comprises a filling member and a pasty medicine. The filling member is made of a flexible and permeable wall and is provided with a holding portion and an injection port via which the pasty medicine is injected into the holding portion after the filling member is inserted into the vertebral body. The holding portion is provided with an opening which is releasably lashed by one end of one or more threads so as to make the opening leakproof. Upon completion of solidification of the pasty medicine in the holding portion of the filling member, other end of the thread is pulled to unlash the opening of the holding portion, thereby enabling the filling member to be extracted from the vertebral body so as to leave only the medicine in the vertebral body.

Claims

1. An extractable device for inserting a medicinal filling into a vertebral body, said device comprising:

a filling member comprising a flexible wall and provided with a holding portion, an injection port at one end of the holding portion, and an opening at another, releasably closable, opening end of the holding portion;

one or more thread, each having one end for releasably closing said opening end of said holding portion in such a manner that said opening end is leakproof; and

a pasty medicine to be injected into said holding portion via said injection port of said filling member in the wake of a process for inserting said filling member into the vertebral body whereby said pasty medicine solidifies in said holding portion of said filling member;

said opening end of said holding portion being reopened at the time when other end of said threads is pulled by an external force, thereby enabling said filling member to be extracted from the vertebral body so as to leave only said medicine in the vertebral body,

wherein said holding portion of said filling member is inflatable and is substantially tabular after being inflated, wherein cross sections perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the holding portion are substantially elliptical and have increasing areas thereof along a direction from the injection port to the opening of the holding portion.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said flexible wall is provided with a plurality of through holes and is permeable.

3. The device as defined in claim 2, wherein said flexible and permeable wall is of a one-layered or multi-layered construction.

4. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said pasty medicine is a mixture of a liquid and a medicinal powdered substance or medicinal granular substance.

5. The device as defined in claim 1 further comprising an injection tool for injecting said pasty medicine into said holding portion via said injection port.

6. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein said injection tool comprises a guide tube and a syringe, wherein one end of said guide tube is connected to said injection port of said filling member and another end of said guide tube is connected to said syringe in which said pasty medicine is held, so that said pasty medicine is able to be injected into said holding portion of said filling member by said syringe via said injection port and said guide tube.

7. The device as defined in claim 6, further comprising a working tube for inserting into said vertebral body, so that said filling member together with said guide tube can be inserted into said working tube and said filling member can be disposed in said vertebral body.

8. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said flexible wall is a folded double-layer tubular wall having an inner layer end and a folded double-layer end, wherein said injection port of said holding portion is provided at said inner layer end, and said opening end of said holding portion is provided at said folded double-layer end, wherein said medicine is released from said filling member by pulling a free end of an outer layer of the double-layer tubular wall to retreat the folded double-layer end, after said opening end of said holding portion being reopened.

9. The device as defined in claim 8, wherein said one or more thread is between an inner layer and said outer layer of said double-layer tubular wall.

10. The device as defined in claim 9, wherein said inner layer and said outer layer of said double-layer tubular wall are provided with a plurality of through holes and are permeable.

11. A method for implanting a solidified medicine into a vertebral body comprising:

inserting a filling member in a hole of a vertebral body, said filling member comprising a flexible and permeable wall and provided with a holding portion, an injection port at one end of the holding portion, and an opening at another, releasably closable, opening end of the holding portion, wherein one or more thread is provided and each having one end releasably closing said opening end of said holding portion in such a manner that said opening end is leakproof, wherein said holding portion of said filling member is inflatable and is substantially tubular after being inflated, wherein cross sections perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the holding portion are substantially elliptical and have increasing areas thereof along a direction from the injection port to the opening end of the holding portion;

injecting a pasty medicine into said holding portion via said injection port of said filling member, so that said holding portion is inflated and said pasty medicine solidifies in said holding portion of said filling member; and

reopening said releasable closable opening end of said holding portion by pulling other end of said threads, thereby enabling said filling member to be extracted from the vertebral body so as to leave only said solidified medicine in the vertebral body,

wherein said solidified pasty medicine has a shape similar to that of the inflated holding portion, and a cross section having a greater area of said solidified medicine is closer to a cortical rim opposite to a pedicle of said vertebral body in comparison with a cross section having a smaller area of said solidified medicine.

12. The method as defined in claim 11, wherein said pasty medicine is a mixture of a liquid and a medicinal powdered substance or medicinal granular substance.

13. The method as defined in claim 11 further comprising fastening detachably an injection tool with said filling member, so that said pasty medicine is injected into said holding portion via said injection tool.

14. The method as defined in claim 13, wherein said injection tool comprises a guide tube and a syringe, wherein one end of said guide tube is connected to said injection port of said filling member and another end of said guide tube is connected to said syringe in which said pasty medicine is held, wherein said pasty medicine is injected into said holding portion of said filling member by said syringe via said injection port and said guide tube.

15. The method as defined in claim 14 further comprising inserting a working tube in said hole of said vertebral body, and inserting said filling member together with said guide tube into said working tube, so that said filling member is disposed in said vertebral body.