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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2021
Cilag Gmbh International, Zug, CH;
Jason T. Perkins, Easton, PA (US);
Alexander M. Cannara, Roseland, NJ (US);
Wei Kong, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Matthew D. Putnam, Minneapolis, MN (US);
David W. Overaker, Glen Gardner, NJ (US);
James Amis, Rogersville, MO (US);
Mark T. Mooney, Duluth, GA (US);
John Killion, Flemington, NJ (US);
Shane Lacy, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Sandra Jean Savidge, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Abstract
A repaired tendon includes a proximal tendon section having a free end, and a distal tendon section having a free end that opposes the free end of the proximal tendon section. Four bidirectional barbed sutures are implanted in the repaired tendon for approximating the free end of the proximal tendon section with the free end of the distal tendon section. Each of the four bidirectional barbed sutures includes a proximal section having proximal barbs that engage the proximal tendon section, a distal section having distal barbs that engage the distal tendon section, and a stop located between the proximal and distal barbs that engages the approximated free ends of the proximal and distal tendon sections. The bidirectional barbed sutures have first suture bites and second suture bites that are shorter than the first suture bites.