Method of treating incontinence
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorsBryon L. Merade, Craig Comiter, Victor Nitti, Raymond Rackley, Eugene Rhee, Sandip Vasavada, Kapri Ellenson
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Abstract
An implant for use in the treatment of urinary incontinence includes a suburethral support and an anchor portion extending from the support portion. The support portion is operatively positionable at or distal to the bulbar urethral complex and the anchor portion is operatively extensible through the obturator foramen.
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A method for treating urinary incontinence in a male patient, the method comprising:
- providing an implant having a support portion, a first arm extending from the support portion and a second arm extending from the support portion;
- making an incision in the male patient;
- placing the first arm of the implant through the incision, through a first obturator foramen of the patient, and adjacent a first descending ramus of the male patient;
- placing the second arm of the implant through the incision and extending the second arm toward a second obturator foramen of the patient adjacent to a second descending ramus of the male patient;
- and
- positioning the support portion of the implant through the incision such that the support portion of the implant is located under the bulbar urethral complex and extends upwardly to a pubic bone of the male patient.
An implant for treating male urinary incontinence, the implant comprising:
- a support portion having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the support portion being configured to support the bulbar urethral of a male patient;
- a first pair of parallel arm portions extending in a first direction from the first side of the support portion;
- a second pair of parallel arm portions extending in a second direction from the second side of the support portion that is opposite to the first direction in which the first pair of parallel arm portions extend.
A method for treating male urinary incontinence in a male patient, the method comprising:
- making an incision and exposing a bulbar urethra of the patient;
- inserting an implant through the incision, the implant including a support portion, a first pair of arm portions, and a second pair of arm portions, the support portion including a front, a back, a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first pair of arm portions extending from the first side of the support portion and the second pair of arms extending from the second side of the support portion and in an opposite direction to the first pair of arms;
- extending the support portion of the implant under the bulbar urethral complex;
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- tensioning the first and second pairs of arm portions to achieve suburethral compression.
A method for treating urinary incontinence in a male patient, the method comprising:
- providing an H-shaped implantable device having a central support portion;
- making a non-scrotal incision in a human patient;
- placing arm portions of the implant through the incision and extending the arm portions toward first and second obturator foramen, respectively, of the patient;
- positioning a central support portion of the implant through the incision and under the bulbar urethral complex of the male patient;
- and
- tensioning the implant to achieve suburethral compression.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.