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AssigneeCeterix Orthopaedics, Inc.
InventorsJohn G. McCutcheon, David H. Heagy, Alan B. Miller, Christopher P. Bender, Michael J. Hendricksen
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Suture passers and methods of suturing tissue to prevent tissue bridging, without requiring a cannula. Tissue bridging involves the capture of non-target tissue within a loop of suture formed around and/or through a target tissue. The devices and methods described herein may include the use of a threading aperture at or near the distal end of the suture passer to guide the device in passing a suture through the tissue along the same pathway that another leg or legs of the loop took to access the target tissue, thereby preventing the inadvertent capture of non-target tissue leading to tissue bridging. In particular, described herein are suture passers and methods of arthroscopically suturing the meniscus of the knee while preventing tissue bridging.
A method of preventing the entrapment of non-target tissue when passing multiple lengths of suture through a target tissue, the method comprising:
A method of preventing the entrapment of non-target tissue when arthroscopically passing multiple lengths of suture through a meniscus of a patient knee, the method comprising:
A method of preventing the entrapment of non-target tissue when using a suture passer to pass multiple lengths of suture through a meniscus of a patient knee, the method comprising:
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