Abstract:
One aspect provides a suture system including a tool and a suture assembly. The tool includes a head having a proximal portion housing a needle and a distal end spaced apart from the proximal portion by a throat, the needle is movable through a needle exit port formed in the proximal portion ofthe head to a cavity formed in the distal end ofthe head. The suture assembly includes suture connected to a suture clip that includes a cylindrical body having a proximal end and a distal end and a slot formed in the cylindrical body between the proximal end and the distal end that allows the cylindrical body to flex in a radial direction, a tab extending from the distal end and configured to be crimped onto an end of the length of suture, and a rib formed on an interior surface of the cylindrical body.
Abstract:
A suture system configured to place suture in tissue includes a tool and a suture assembly. The tool includes a head having a proximal portion housing a needle and a distal end spaced apart from the proximal portion. The needle is movable through a needle exit port formed in the proximal portion of the head to a cavity formed in the distal end of the head. The suture assembly has a length of suture connected to a leader plug, and the leader plug includes a substantially solid proximal portion. The leader plug is removably retained in the cavity formed in the distal end of the head and the needle is operable to penetrate and engage with the substantially solid proximal portion of the leader plug to allow the needle to extract the leader plug out of the cavity and secure the leader plug in the needle exit port.
Abstract:
A suturing assembly configured to place suture in tissue includes a handle having an actuator, a shaft coupled to the handle, and a head coupled to the shaft. The head includes a proximal portion housing a needle movable through a needle exit port and a distal end spaced apart from the proximal portion by a throat, the distal end defining a cavity. The actuator is configured to move the needle out of the needle exit port formed in the proximal portion of the head and across the throat to engage a capsule disposed in the cavity formed in the distal end of the head, the capsule attached to the suture.
Abstract:
A suture fixation system includes a suture assembly having an anchor, an introducer, and a delivery device. The introducer is attachable to a finger of a person and includes a platform attached to an exterior of the introducer and a zip line attached to the platform. The delivery device is movable along the zip line and configured to removably retain the anchor. The introducer allows the finger to identify a target landmark within a patient and the delivery device is movable along the zip line and attachable to the platform to position the anchor for insertion to the target landmark. A method of fixing a suture to tissue of a patient includes placing an introducer onto a finger, the introducer including a zip line trailing from a proximal end of the introducer. The method additionally includes identifying a landmark with the finger, guiding a delivery device along the zip line toward the introducer, where the delivery device maintaining an anchor attached to a suture line, and ejecting the anchor from the delivery device and into the tissue of the patient.
Abstract:
A system (280) forrepair of a prolapsed organ in a patient includes a support and a deployment instrument having a handle (290) extending from a barrel (282) and a trigger (294, 296) offset from the handle, the trigger is operable to advance the support out of the barrel of the deployment instrument and into the patient.
Abstract:
A suture system spool (30) is configured to retain suture (26) having a suture diameter and tension the suture between a distal and proximal end portions of a suturing tool. The spool includes a monolithically formed disc (100) defining a central opening (at 106) that pro¬ vides the disc with an inside diameter (106). The disc includes a base (110) and a flap (112) joined with the base at the inside diameter, and the flap extends from the inside diameter to an outer periphery of the disc to define a cavity (114) between the flap and the base. The flap is spaced away from the base at a location between the inside diameter (S) and the outer periphery of the disc by a factor of at least two times the suture diameter, and the flap is spaced away from the base at the outer periphery of the disc by a distance (G) that is approximately equal to the suture diameter.
Abstract:
An incontinence treatment device includes a band, magnets, and a power source. The band has a length extending between a first end and a second end. A first magnet is connected to a first end portion of the band and a second magnet is connected to a second end portion of the band. The band is implantable around a urethra and configured to constrict a lumen of the urethra when the first magnet is coupled to the second magnet. The power source is electrically coupled to the first and second magnets and configured to electromagnetically couple and decouple the first magnet relative to the second magnet.
Abstract:
A suture assembly (20) configured to load a suture instrument (112) with suture (24) includes a cap (22) attached to an end of the suture (24), a suture container (26) configured to retain a portion of the suture (24), and a cap retainer (28) having a wall (30) and a suture channel (32) formed in the wall (30). The suture channel (32) is configured to receive a length of the suture (24), and the wall (30) is configured to deny passage of the cap (22) into the suture channel (32) and align the cap (22) with the length of the suture (24) for loading into the suture instrument (112).
Abstract:
An incontinence treatment device includes a band, magnets, and a power source. The band has a length extending between a first end and a second end. A first magnet is connected to a first end portion of the band and a second magnet is connected to a second end portion of the band. The band is implantable around a urethra and configured to constrict a lumen of the urethra when the first magnet is coupled to the second magnet. The power source is electrically coupled to the first and second magnets and configured to electromagnetically couple and decouple the first magnet relative to the second magnet.
Abstract:
An incontinence treatment device (20) includes a non-porous sling (22) located between two anchors (40, 42). A first line (50) is attached between a first end (24, 92) of the sling (22) and the first anchor (40), and a second line (52) is attached to a second end (26, 94) of the sling (22) and inserted through a channel (90) of the second anchor (42). The second anchor (42) is provided with a restrictor segment (96) provided in the channel (90). The second line (52) has an adjustment device (70) attached to the second line (52) and the restrictor segment (96) is configured to resist movement of the adjustment device through the channel (90). The adjustment device is movable through the channel (90) from a first position that locates the adjustment device between the second anchor (42) and the sling (22) to a second position that locates the second anchor (42) between the adjustment device and the sling (22) to thereby reduce an effective length of the sling (22) between the first and second anchors (40, 42).