Karl Storz-gmbh & Co. Kg

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Unversität Zürich

Cedior

Christian Gerber

Sascha Berberich

Andreas Appenzeller

Martin Oberlaender

Philippe Gedet

Dominik Meyer

Andre Weber

Yves Pequignet

An anchor element serves for knotless fixing of a tissue to a bone by at least one suture threaded through the anchor element. A body of that anchor element has an outer surface with projections. A transverse bore is arranged in a distal end section of the body for receiving a threading passing therethrough. A clamp element serves for clamping the suture threaded transversely through the bore. The clamping element has a portion arranged within the body and is movable within the body towards that transverse bore.

Anchor element for knotless fixing of tissue to a bone

An implant comprises a deformable gas tight sack. The sack comprises a first chamber in fluid communication with an obturatable opening, the chamber filled or fillable with a filling material filling the first chamber. The implant is configured such that when one or both of a gas and fluid surrounding the filling material is removed from the first chamber through the opening, a wall of the first chamber forms around and holds the filling material. This causes the implant to transition from a relatively flexible insertion state to a relatively rigid fixation state in which the implant is fixable in the target portions of bone.

Implant

A medical instrument for grasping surgical suture material, with a shaft on whose proximal end a handle is positioned consisting of at least two gripping members and on whose distal end a tool is positioned consisting of a rigid jaw member and a pivotable jaw member and where the pivotable jaw member can be pivoted with respect to the rigid jaw member for opening and closing with a moveably configured gripping member of the handle, for which purpose the pivotable jaw member and the moveable gripping member are in active connection with one another by means of an actuating element mounted in the shaft. To create a medical instrument that is both easy to operate and makes possible a safe grasping and guiding of the suture material, it is disclosed that in the rigid jaw member there should be configured an indentation that opens toward the pivotable jaw member and that can be covered, with the tool in closed position, only in the center area by the pivotable jaw member.

Medical instrument for grasping surgical suture material

A shoulder prosthesis includes a humeral stem designed to be implanted within the patient's humeral canal and a head portion designed to cooperate with the glenoid cavity of a shoulder. The head portion, which has a spherical shape generated by revolution about an axis, is connected to the humeral stem by a link that includes 1) a ball fixed to a proximal end of the stem and 2) a spherical socket made in the head portion and forming a housing for the ball. The axis of revolution of the head portion is off-set with respect to the center of the ball. The assembly formed by the socket and the ball constitutes a joint capable of making the orientation of the head portion vary in relation to the stem by rotation about the center of the ball. The head portion is lockable to the stem, preferably by a conical push rod which moves into an axial conical bore under the action of a tightening screw, to cause compression of the ball against the spherical cavity by blocked lateral expansion of the ball.

Total shoulder prosthesis

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