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US 5,383,904 AGranted
Stiffened surgical device
AssigneeUnited States Surgical Corporation
InventorsNagabhushanam Totakura, Ross Muth
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Abstract
A suture-pledget combination is improved by applying a stiffening agent to at least a portion of the suture adjacent to the pledget to decrease the probability of tangling or twisting of the suture during use.
Claims11
A method of treating a suture-pledget device with a pledget disposed on a central region of the suture comprising applying a stiffening agent to at least a portion of the suture adjacent to the pledget wherein the stiffening agent is applied to the suture and the pledget is substantially unstiffened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.