Medical devices incorporating functional adhesives
AssigneeSofradim Production
InventorsAhmad Robert Hadba, Jack Kennedy, Sëbastien Ladet
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Abstract
Methods for treating a wound at a surgical target site are provided which includes utilizing a surgical access device having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair releasably contained on a surface of the access device, the reactive members having affinity for binding a cellular component of tissue cells located at the target site; contacting the surface of the access device with the tissue cells, wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the surface of the access device with the tissue cells, the reactive members are released from the surface of the access device and bind to the tissue. A surgical access device for use in the minimally invasive surgery is also provided.
Claims41
A method for treating a wound or defect at a target site using a minimally invasive surgical procedure comprising:
- providing a surgical access device having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair releasably contained on a surface of the access device, the reactive members having affinity for binding a cellular component of tissue cells located at the target site;
- contacting the surface of the access device with the tissue cells, wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the surface of the access device with the tissue cells, the reactive members are released from the surface of the access device and bind to the tissue cells;
- providing a tissue repair member having secured thereto a plurality of complementary reactive members of the specific binding pair;
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- applying the tissue repair member to the tissue cells, wherein upon contact of the complementary reactive members on the surface of the tissue repair member with the reactive members on the tissue cells, covalent bonds are formed between the reactive members and the complementary reactive members, thus bonding the tissue repair member to the target site.
A surgical access device for use in minimally invasive surgery comprising a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair releasably contained on a surface of the access device, the reactive members having an affinity for binding a cellular component of tissue cells and another affinity for binding complementary members of the specific binding pair.
A kit comprising a surgical access device having a surface with a plurality of reactive members for binding to complementary reactive members of a specific binding pair, a tissue repair member which has a plurality of the complementary reactive members of the specific binding pair attached to a surface of the tissue repair member and a container which houses the surgical access device and tissue repair member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.