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Instruments for delivering transfascial sutures, transfascial suture assemblies, and methods of transfascial suturing

  • US 8,790,356 B2
  • Filed: 03/09/2012
  • Issued: 07/29/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of transfacial suturing, the method comprising acts of:

  • (a) delivering a suture assembly into an abdominal cavity of a patient, the suture assembly including a suture anchor, a force distribution member and a suture connected to the suture anchor and the force distribution member, the suture anchor being spaced a distance from the force distribution member with a length of the suture therebetween;

    (b) passing the suture anchor, from within the abdominal cavity, through a soft tissue repair prosthetic provided in the abdominal cavity and then through at least a part of the abdominal wall with the force distribution member being maintained in the abdominal cavity;

    (c) positioning the suture anchor outside the abdominal cavity and below the skin surface; and

    (d) tightening the suture assembly, from outside the abdominal cavity, by reducing the distance between the suture anchor and the force distribution member.

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