Tela Bio, Inc

Stout Medical Group, L.p.

Theken Spine, LLC

Flexmedex, LLC

Blackstone Medical, Inc.

Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation

Pipe Therapeutics LLC

John-Paul Romano

E Skott Greenhalgh

Michael Paul Igoe

Travis Speicher

Robert A Kiefer

Wade Kevin Trexler

Brendan Farrell

Francesco Alfredo Larosa

Nelson Li

Boris Olevsky

Skott Greenhalgh

An implantable orthopedic support device and methods of using the device are disclosed. The device can have rigid structural components that can translate longitudinally with respect to each other, and in so doing can change the vertical height of the device. The structural components can be driven by a drivescrew mechanism to change the vertical height of the device.

Expandable support device and method of use

A hybrid medical device that can aid in reconstructive or augmentative surgery of the breast is disclosed. The device can utilize a suitable biological collagen tissue matrix combined with a synthetic material, for example, that can impart a high initial strength to the repair site while permitting proper healing and revitalization of the implanted device.

Surgical attachment device

Described herein are implants (e.g., medical textiles/biotextiles) that include stitched gripping filaments to increase gripping, and methods of forming and using them. In some configurations these apparatuses may be configured as surgical grafts that may be used for soft tissue reconstruction, regeneration, or repair.

Textured medical textiles

Corner-lock stitch patterns. A mesh pattern may include a first pattern of a first upper thread and a first lower thread comprising one or more first polygonal or circular rings, and a second pattern of a second upper thread and a second lower thread comprising one or more second polygonal or circular rings. At least one of the second polygonal or circular rings may overlap with at least one of the first polygonal or circular rings at an area of overlap. The area of overlap may include a corner-lock stitch pattern in which the second upper thread and second lower thread envelop the first upper thread and the first lower thread.

Corner-lock stitch patterns

An attachment device with a radially expandable section is disclosed. The attachment device can have helical threads, for example, to facilitate screwing the attachment device into a bone. Methods of using the same are also disclosed. The attachment device can be positioned to radially expand the expandable section in cancellous bone substantially surrounded by cortical bone.

Expandable attachment device and method

Compliance control stitch patterns sewn or embroidered into biotextile or medical textile substrates impart reinforcing strength, and stretch resistance and control into such substrates. Compliance control stitch patterns may be customizable to particular patients, substrate implantation sites, particular degenerative or diseased conditions, or desired time frames. Substrates having compliance control stitch patterns sewn or embroidered into them may be used in tissue repair or tissue reconstruction applications.

Compliance control stitching in substrate materials

Materials for soft tissue repair, and in particular, material for hernia repair. These materials may be configured as an implant, such as a graft, that may be implanted into a patient in need thereof, such as a patient having a hernia or undergoing a hernia repair surgical procedure. These grafts may include a first layer comprising a substrate (e.g., mesh) and a second layer comprising a sheet of anti-adhesive material. The layers may be attached with a plurality of relatively small attachment sites that are separated by regions in which the two layers are not attached, to provide a highly compliant graft.

Hernia repair grafts having anti-adhesion barriers

Stitching patterns overlap to produce a corner-locked stitch pattern. The corner-locked stitch pattern includes one or more thread interlace points, and one or more overlays of threads from overlapping patterns. A network of corner-lock stitch patterns produces a mesh, which may be embroidered into a substrate, such as a medical textile or biotextile. Corner-lock stitch patterns resist puncture-induced and tension-induced deformation of mesh pores between corner-locked stitch patterns, and may be used to modulate compliance and enhance strength properties of a substrate into which they are sewn.

An expandable support device for tissue repair is disclosed. The device can be used to repair hard or soft tissue, such as bone. The expandable support device can have interconnected struts. A method of repairing tissue is also disclosed. The expandable support device can be inserted into a damaged bone and radial expanded. The radial expansion of the expandable support device struts can cause the struts to cut mechanically support and/or the bone.

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John-Paul Romano