Suture sleeve patch and methods of delivery within an existing arthroscopic workflow
AssigneeNew York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the Hospital for Special Surgery
InventorStruan H. Coleman
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Abstract
Suture delivered patches adapted for interposition, augmentation or repair devices for use in tendon and ligament repair, including rotator cuff repair, have been developed as well as methods for their delivery using suture guided arthroscopic methods. The repair patches may be provided from suitable biocompatible materials. The patches may be delivered using anchored sutures already in use during a surgical repair including, open, minimally invasive, endoscopic, and arthroscopic repair procedures. Additionally, fixation of the suture delivered repair patch is secured along with the normal suture securing workflow of the one or more sutures used to deliver the patch.
Claims26
A device to promote healing at an arthroscopic surgical repair site, comprising:
- a porous repair patch acting as a scaffold having an overall shape with a length greater than a width and only one single suture conduit, the repair patch having a proximal end and a distal end with a flat side extending from the proximal end to the distal end along the length wherein the only one single suture conduit is a continuous conduit from the proximal end to the distal end of the repair patch;
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- the only one single suture conduit having an opening in the distal end, extending completely through the repair patch to an opening in the proximal end, the only one single suture conduit sized to allow passage of an anchored suture and permit relative movement of the repair patch along the anchored suture disposed within the only one single suture conduit for positioning the repair patch along the tissue of the arthroscopic surgical repair site,
- wherein the only one single suture conduit is an elongate hollow structure inserted into and removeable from the repair patch.
A device to promote healing at an arthroscopic surgical repair site, comprising:
- a porous repair patch acting as a scaffold having a proximal end and a distal end and only one single conduit, the repair patch having an overall shape that is three sided or four sided wherein at least one of said sides is flat from the proximal end to the distal end, wherein the proximal end or the distal end is trimmable, shapeable or foldable prior to use for sizing the repair patch to promote healing of a soft tissue structure at the arthroscopic surgical repair site;
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- the only one single suture conduit completely extending through the repair patch from the proximal end to the distal end and sized to allow passage of an anchored suture and permit relative movement of the repair patch along the anchored suture disposed within the single suture conduit, wherein the repair patch is configured to be positioned on the soft tissue structure within the arthroscopic surgical repair site by being slid over the anchored suture disposed within the only one single suture conduit,
- wherein the single suture conduit is an elongate hollow member inserted into and removable from the repair patch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.