Flexible anchoring and fusion devices and methods of using the same
AssigneeGlobus Medical, Inc.
InventorSean Suh
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Abstract
A spacer member is provided that is configured to be implanted adjacent an anatomical structure. The spacer member defines a curved bore, a first opening in a side wall of the spacer member and a second opening in one of a top wall and a bottom wall of the spacer member. Each of the first opening and the second opening are in fluid communication with the curved bore. A flexible anchoring member is configured to be inserted through the side opening and through the curved bore of the spacer member such that a distal end portion of the flexible anchoring member extends out of the second opening at an angle relative to the one of the top wall and the bottom wall of the spacer member.
Claims12
A medical device, comprising:
- an expandable fusion member configured to be inserted while in a collapsed configuration into a portion of a vertebra of a patient, the expandable fusion member having a first portion and a second portion and defining an interior region configured to receive an inflation medium to move the expandable fusion member from the collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration while disposed within the vertebra,
- when in the expanded configuration, the first portion of the expandable fusion member extends within a first bore within a portion of the vertebra, and the second portion extends within a second bore within a portion of the first vertebra.
A medical device, comprising:
- a first elongate member defining a lumen between a proximal end portion and a distal end portion of the first elongate member;
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- a second elongate member movably disposable within the lumen of the first elongate member, the second elongate member being flexible and including a at least one cutting member disposed on an outer surface of a distal end portion of the second elongate member, the first elongate member configured to restrain the second elongate member in a substantially linear configuration when disposed within the lumen of the first elongate member, the second elongate member being movable to a biased curved configuration when disposed outside of the lumen of the first elongate member,
- a distal end portion of the first elongate member configured to be inserted into an anatomical structure of a patient when the distal end portion of the second elongate member is disposed within the lumen of the first elongate member, the distal end portion of the second elongate member configured to cut tissue within a portion of the anatomical structure along a non-linear path when the second elongate member is moved distally relative to the first elongate member such that the distal end portion of the second elongate member extends outside of the lumen of the first elongate member and is moved to its curved configuration and the second elongate member is rotated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.