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US 2017/0245974 A1Published application
Tissue anchor system including a suture securing an anchor to a support
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorsNeal Poucher, Sarah J. Deitch, Allen Gaynor
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Abstract
A tissue anchor system includes a support, a suture inserted through the support, an anchor having a fin forming an eyelet, where the suture is engaged with the eyelet of the fin. An introducer is provided having a cannula defining a bore sized to receive the anchor and a slot formed in a wall of the cannula, with the slot sized to receive the fin of the anchor.
Claims17
A tissue anchor system comprising:
- a support having a base and a number of arms extending from the base, where the number of arms is less than 3 and includes a first arm separated from a second arm by a central portion of the support, where the support is a knitted mesh having open pores;
- a suture inserted through the support, with a first trailing end portion and a second trailing end portion of the suture maintained inside of a conduit;
- an anchor comprising a body, a fin extending from the body in a first direction with an eyelet formed in the fin, a pair of radial barrels extending from opposite sides of the body in a radial direction perpendicular to the first direction, with the suture engaged with the eyelet of the fin;
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- an introducer having a cannula defining a bore sized to receive the body of the anchor and a slot formed in a wall of the cannula, with the slot sized to receive the fin of the anchor.
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A tissue anchor system comprising:
- a support formed from a knitted mesh;
- a suture engaged with the support;
- an anchor comprising a body having a leading end portion connected to a trailing end portion at a midpoint of the body, a fin located on the leading end portion of the body and extending in a first direction, a barrel located on the leading end portion of the body inferior relative to the fin and extending in a radial direction perpendicular to the first direction, and an eyelet formed through the fin with the suture inserted through the eyelet of the fin;
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- an introducer having a cannula defining a bore sized to receive the body of the anchor and a slot formed in a wall of the cannula, with the slot sized to receive the fin of the anchor.
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A tissue anchor system comprising:
- a knitted mesh support;
- a suture engaged with the knitted mesh support;
- an anchor comprising a body having a leading end portion connected to a trailing end portion at a midpoint of the body, a fin located on the leading end portion of the body and extending in a first direction, a barrel located on the leading end portion of the body inferior relative to the fin and extending in a radial direction perpendicular to the first direction, an eyelet formed through the fin with the suture inserted through the eyelet of the fin, and a crush rib formed on a side of the anchor opposite from the fin;
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- an introducer sized to receive the anchor and to deliver the anchor into tissue.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.