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US 2006/0224038 A1Published application
Dissolvable protective treatment for an implantable supportive sling
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorDoreen Rao
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Abstract
The invention provides, in one embodiment, a sling assembly including an implantable supportive sling and a biocompatible dissolvable protective treatment on at least a portion of the sling.
Claims25
A sling assembly for treating urinary incontinence comprising,
- an implantable supportive sling having first and second sides and first and second longitudinally extending edges and being sized and shaped for providing a urethral platform, and
- a biocompatible dissolvable protective treatment along at least a portion of the first longitudinally extending edge of the sling along at least the first side of the sling, the sling having a longitudinally extending portion intermediate to the first and second longitudinally extending edges untreated, the biocompatible dissolvable protective treatment being absorbable into a patient's tissues subsequent to implantation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.