Medical device delivery system and method
AssigneeRotation Medical, Inc.
InventorsCharles L. Euteneuer, Rebecca McCarville, Duane Frion, Nathaniel Zenz-Olson
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Abstract
A tendon repair implant delivery system and methods incorporating a guide member having a temporary fixation member on or adjacent to the distal end. The point of fixation defines a target site for placement of the tendon repair implant which is subsequently affixed to the tendon.
Claims18
A method for positioning a tendon repair implant, the method comprising the steps of:
- temporarily affixing a distal tip of a guide to tissue at a target site of a shoulder;
- positioning a tendon repair implant against a tendon of the shoulder with the guide extending through the tendon repair implant;
- fixing the tendon repair implant to the tendon;
- and
- removing the guide from the target site after fixing the tendon repair implant to the tendon.
A method for positioning a tendon repair implant to overlay at least a portion of a supraspinatus tendon of a shoulder, the method comprising the steps of:
- advancing a distal portion of an implant delivery device including a sheath, a shaft axially movable within a lumen of the sheath, and a temporary fixation member at a distal end of the shaft to a tendon repair site on a bursal side of the supraspinatus tendon;
- temporarily affixing the temporary fixation member to tissue at a tendon repair site on the bursal side of the supraspinatus tendon;
- positioning a tendon repair implant against the bursal side of the supraspinatus tendon with the temporary fixation member extending through the tendon repair implant;
- fixing the tendon repair implant to the bursal side of the supraspinatus tendon while the temporary fixation member is extending through the tendon repair implant;
- and
- removing the temporary fixation member from the tissue at the tendon repair site after fixing the tendon repair implant to the bursal side of the supraspinatus tendon.
A method of delivering a tissue repair implant to a treatment site comprising:
- positioning an implant delivery device at a target treatment site within a shoulder of a patient;
- deploying a tissue repair implant from the implant delivery device at the target treatment site;
- causing an implant expander of the implant delivery device to transition from a compact configuration to an expanded configuration, wherein in the expanded configuration the implant expander extends distally of a sheath of the implant delivery device;
- pressing the tissue repair implant against the target treatment site with the implant expander;
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- attaching the tissue repair implant to the target treatment site while a temporary fixation member of the implant delivery device is extended through the tissue repair implant and fixed to tissue underlying the tissue repair implant at the target treatment site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.