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US 8,708,886 B2Granted
Method of supporting pelvic organs
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorChristopher Deegan
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Abstract
A method of supporting pelvic organs in a patient includes forming a tissue incision providing access to the pelvic organs in the patient; inserting a knit material into the tissue incision; and supporting at least one of the pelvic organs in the patient with the knit material. The knit material has a filament knitted into a chain of loops that are coupled together by having each loop suspended by a neighboring loop, and at least one loop in the chain of loops having the filament tied around the one loop to form a closed loop.
Claims16
A method of supporting pelvic organs in a patient, the method comprising:
- forming a tissue incision providing access to the pelvic organs in the patient;
- inserting a knit material formed of a plurality of loops into the tissue incision;
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- supporting at least one of the pelvic organs in the patient with the knit material, where the knit material comprises a first filament knitted into a first chain of loops that are coupled together by having each loop of the first chain of loops suspended by a neighboring loop of the knit material, the first chain of loops being disposed along a first wale and the first filament being tied around individual loops along the first wale to form closed loops along the first wale, each of the closed loops including the first filament defining an ascending loop segment, a first descending loop segment, a transverse loop segment, and a second descending loop segment, the ascending loop segment passing upwardly from a descending loop segment of a first neighboring loop in the first wale and then curving downwardly to transition to the first descending loop segment, the first descending loop segment then extending downwardly to transition to a transverse loop segment that is tied transversely around the ascending loop segment of the first filament, the transverse loop segment then curving downwardly to transition to the second descending loop segment, the second descending loop segment then transitioning into an ascending loop segment of a second neighboring loop in the first wale and positioned opposite the first neighboring loop in the first wale.
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A method of supporting pelvic organs in a patient, the method comprising:
- forming a tissue incision providing access to the pelvic organs in the patient;
- inserting a support into the tissue incision, where the support comprises a knit material having a first filament that forms a first chain of loops along a first wale, the first filament being tied around individual alternating loops in the first chain of loops to form a chain of closed loops, each of the closed loops of the first chain of loops including the first filament defining an ascending loop segment, a first descending loop segment, a transverse loop segment, and a second descending loop segment, the ascending loop segment passing upwardly from a descending loop segment of a first neighboring loop in the first wale and then curving downwardly to transition to the first descending loop segment, the first descending loop segment then extending downwardly to transition to a transverse loop segment that is tied transversely around the ascending loop segment of the first filament, the transverse loop segment then curving downwardly to transition to the second descending loop segment, the second descending loop segment then transitioning into an ascending loop segment of a second neighboring loop in the first wale and positioned opposite the first neighboring loop in the first wale;
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- applying tension to an arm of the support, where the arm has a tear resistance of not less than 5 lbf.
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A method of providing a pelvic organ support to a patient, the method comprising:
- knitting a sheet of material including a first filament that forms a first chain of loops along a first wale, the first filament being tied around individual alternating loops in the first chain of loops to form a chain of closed loops, each of the closed loops including the first filament defining an ascending loop segment, a first descending loop segment, a transverse loop segment, and a second descending loop segment, the ascending loop segment passing upwardly from a descending loop segment of a first neighboring loop in the first wale and then curving downwardly to transition to the first descending loop segment, the first descending loop segment then extending downwardly to transition to a transverse loop segment that is tied transversely around the ascending loop segment of the first filament, the transverse loop segment then curving downwardly to transition to the second descending loop segment, the second descending loop segment then transitioning into an ascending loop segment of a second neighboring loop in the first wale and positioned opposite the first neighboring loop in the first wale;
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- removing a support device from the sheet of material, the support device having a body portion and an arm extending from the body portion.
A method of supporting pelvic organs in a patient, the method comprising:
- forming a tissue incision providing access to the pelvic organs in the patient;
- inserting a knit material into the tissue incision;
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- supporting at least one of the pelvic organs in the patient with the knit material, where the knit material comprises a first filament knitted into a first chain of loops and a second filament knitted into a second chain of loops, each loop of the first and second chains of loops being suspended by a neighboring loop, the first filament being tied around individual alternative loops in the first chain of loops and the second filament being tied around alternating loops in the second chain of loops such that half of the loops in the first and second chains of loops have a filament tied around a loop of the respective first and second chains of loops to form closed loops.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.