US 2019/0290277 A1 · SURGICAL FASTENER

Abstract

A surgical fastener is provided for various surgical fastening applications, including attaching an implantable prosthesis, such as a soft tissue repair fabric, to tissue and/or muscle. The surgical fastener may include a coil body and a head attached to the coil body. The head may include at least one external thread adapted to engage with a corresponding internal thread of a delivery device. The head may include a through hole adapted to receive a rod therethrough for guiding and/or driving the surgical fastener from the delivery device. The through hole may have a non-circular configuration that complements at least a portion of the shape of a non-circular rod. The coil body may also define a channel with a non-circular configuration. The non-circular through hole and/or channel may be engaged and rotated by the non-circular rod to rotate the surgical fastener for delivery and insertion of the fastener into the prosthesis and/or tissue.

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Dependent claims

A surgical fastener comprising:

a coil body including a plurality of coil windings, the coil body having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the coil body defines a non-circular channel extending there through;
and
a separate head attached to the proximal end of the coil body, the head including at least one external thread adapted to engage with a corresponding internal thread of a delivery device, the head further including a non-circular through hole adapted to receive a rod therethrough to guide and/or drive the surgical fastener from the delivery device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Surgical fastener

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