Pelvic floor repair system

• US 9,675,436 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2015
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Chu, Michael S. H., Nowlin, Brett
• Primary Examiner(s): MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS
• Application Number:
  US14/840,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20150366647A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• 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 17/06066 Needles, e.g. needle tip configurations making needles B21G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06109 Big needles, either gripped by hand or connectable to a handle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0046 with a releasable handle; with handle and operating part separable
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00805 Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06042 located close to needle tip
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06076 helically or spirally coiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0063 Implantable repair or support meshes, e.g. hernia meshes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/04 Hollow or tubular parts of organs, e.g. bladders, tracheae, bronchi or bile ducts A61F2/18, A61F2/20 take precedence; devices, other than stent-grafts, providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body other than stent-grafts, e.g. stents A61F2/82; instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts A61F2/95
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/0072 Delivery tools therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0008 Fixation appliances for connecting prostheses to the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0004 Rounded shapes, e.g. with rounded corners

Abstract

Systems, method, and devices related to surgically implantable supportive slings are presented herein. More specifically, in various embodiments, the systems, devices and methods relate to a surgically implantable supportive sling adapted to anchor in patient tissue.

Claims

1. A system for delivering an implant to a patient, comprising:

an implant having an attachment strap, the attachment strap having an end portion, the end portion defining projections on at least one lateral edge of the attachment strap, the projections adapted to anchor the implant in soft tissue of the patient'"'"'s pelvic floor;

an end termination member attached to the attachment strap, the end termination member defining a lumen;

a shaft having a first portion having a first size and a second portion having a second size larger than the first size, the shaft defining a shoulder between the first portion and the second portion, the shaft being configured to be received within the lumen of the end termination member such that at least a portion of the first portion of the shaft is disposed within the lumen of the end termination member; and

a sheath having a first end and a second end, the sheath defining a hollow center extending from the first end to the second end, the sheath configured to receive the shaft such that the shaft extends through the hollow center from the first end to the second end.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a handle coupled to the shaft.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a handle coupled to the sheath.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the end termination member includes a loop.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the end termination member includes a ring.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the end termination member has two radially extending legs.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the shaft and the sheath are substantially straight.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the shaft and the sheath have a curved shape.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the shaft is rigid and the sheath is flexible.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the sheath is curved and the shaft is flexible material, and the shaft bends to extend through the hollow center of the sheath upon insertion.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the shaft is longer than the sheath.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tip attached to a distal end of the sheath.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the implant has at least two arms and a posterior extension portion that is adapted to be positioned under a posterior pelvic region.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the two arms arch toward the posterior pelvic region.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the implant has four arms and is adapted to be positioned under an anterior pelvic region.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the four arms extend laterally from a central portion of the implant and in an anterior direction, toward the anterior pelvic region.