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US 9,517,058 B2Granted
System and method for pelvic floor repair
AssigneePop Medical Solutions Ltd.
InventorsBoaz Harari, Eyal Sandach, Menahem Neuman
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Abstract
A method of repairing a pelvic floor disorder and a system for carrying out the method are provided. The method is effected by positioning an imaging device in an abdominal, rectal, perianal or vaginal cavity, advancing a surgical instrument through a vaginal wall under guidance of the imaging device to thereby reach a target tissue and using the surgical instrument to attach the tissue repair device to the target tissue.
Claims6
A method of repairing a pelvic floor disorder comprising:
- (a) positioning an ultrasound transducer in a vaginal cavity and identifying a sacrospinous ligament in an imaging field of said ultrasound transducer;
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- (b) advancing a surgical instrument through a vaginal wall under guidance of said ultrasound transducer to thereby reach said sacrospinous ligament;
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- (c) using said surgical instrument to attach a tissue repair device to said sacrospinous ligament.
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