Surgical fasteners and methods for sealing wounds
AssigneeSofradim Production
InventorSébastien Ladet
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Abstract
A method for closing a wound in tissue is provided which includes providing a surgical fastener having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair attached on a surface of the surgical fastener, and providing tissue with a plurality of complementary reactive members of the specific binding pair, wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the surface of the surgical fastener with the complimentary reactive members on the tissue, covalent bonds are formed between the reactive members and the complementary reactive members, thus adhering the device to the tissue.
Claims29
A method comprising:
- wetting tissue with a liquid precursor having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair;
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- contacting the wetted tissue with a surgical fastener having a plurality of complementary reactive members of the specific binding pair attached on a surface of the surgical fastener, wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the tissue with the complimentary reactive members on the surgical fastener, covalent bonds are formed between the reactive members and the complementary reactive members, thus adhering the surgical fastener to the tissue.
A method for closing a wound in tissue comprising:
- contacting tissue at a wound with a surgical fastener to mechanically close the wound, the surgical fastener having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair attached on a surface of the surgical fastener, and
- wetting the mechanically closed wound tissue with a liquid precursor having a plurality of complimentary reactive members of the specific binding pair, wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the surgical fastener with the complimentary reactive members on the tissue, covalent bonds are formed between the reactive members and the complementary reactive members, thus adhering the surgical fastener to the tissue.
A method for closing a wound in tissue comprising:
- contacting a wound with a surgical fastener and a liquid precursor, the surgical fastener has a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair attached on a surface of the surgical fastener, and the liquid precursor has a plurality of complimentary reactive members of the specific binding pair,
- wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the surgical fastener with the complimentary reactive members on the tissue, covalent bonds are formed between the reactive members and the complementary reactive members, thus adhering the surgical fastener to the tissue.
A kit comprising a polymeric surgical fastener having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair attached to a surface of the surgical fastener and a container containing a precursor liquid including complementary reactive members of the specific binding pair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.