Surgical kit for securing an implantable sling in a pubic region

US9549799B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mona J. Inman · Eden Prairie, US
• Kevin R. Arnal · Excelsior, US
• Matthew J. Monarski · Victoria, US
• Robert L. Rykhus · Edina, US
• Suranjan Roychowdhury · Plymouth, US
• Jeffrey A. Lechner-Riehle · Burnsville, US
• Eric Watschke · Minneapolis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 3, 2013
• Grant date: Jan 24, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 22, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/06176
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Surgical procedures, kits and implants for alleviating human incontinence, and particularly providing improved methods and apparatus to secure a urethral sling (30) to pubic bone (24, 26) to support the urethra and alleviate incontinence are disclosed. Bone anchors (64) are driven into pubic bones with elongated bone anchor sutures (84) configured to be passed through openings of a urethral sling. Suture retainers are applied to the sutures to apply retentive force to the urethral sling to maintain the fixation of the urethral sling proximate to the pubic bone.