Tissue repair
AssigneeSmith & Nephew, Inc.
InventorsSteven William Astorino, Peter Klindt Sorensen, Laura Lindsey Mills
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a flexible fixation member having a body with a longitudinal extent and a width, the body defining a plurality of openings through the body, each of the plurality of openings formed substantially cross wise through the width of the body, and a suture having two terminal ends, the suture being interwoven through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the fixation member such that multiple portions of the fixation member are slidably coupled to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site.
Claims24
An apparatus comprising:
- a non-tubular flexible fixation member comprising a body with a longitudinal extent and a width and two free terminal ends at opposite ends of the longitudinal extent, the body defining a plurality of openings through the body, each of the plurality of openings formed through the width of the body;
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- a suture comprising two free terminal ends, the suture being interwoven through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the fixation member such that-multiple portions of the fixation member are slidably coupled to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site and such that each terminal end of the flexible fixation member terminates proximate a different one of the two terminal ends of the suture;
- and such that the entirety of the suture is slidable with respect to the fixation member, wherein each of the free terminal ends of the suture are dimensioned for passage through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the fixation member.
An assembly comprising:
- a non-tubular tissue anchor formed from one of a suture, mesh, braid, or tape, the tissue anchor comprising a body with a longitudinal extent and a width and two free terminal ends at opposite end of the longitudinal extent, the body defining a plurality of openings along the longitudinal extent of the body and through the width of the body;
- a suture comprising a bend and first and second tail sections extending from opposing sides of the bend to respective free terminal ends of the suture, the suture being interwoven through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the tissue anchor such that:
- a first portion of the tissue anchor is slidable relative to the first tail section of the suture, a second portion of the tissue anchor is slidable relative to the second tail section of the suture, wherein each of the free terminal ends of the suture are dimensioned for passage through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the tissue anchor, and a third portion of the tissue anchor extends between the first and second portions of the tissue anchor, adjacent the bend;
- said tissue anchor is configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site;
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- each terminal end of the tissue anchor terminates proximate a different one of the two terminal ends of the suture;
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- a delivery device comprising a cannula configured to receive the tissue anchor therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.