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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2002
Pat D. O'Donnell, Tulsa, OK (US);
Other;
Abstract
A surgical instrument for treating female urinary stress incontinence comprising a tubular mesh sling for implanting into the lower abdomen of a female which provides support to mid-urethral and bladder neck sphincteric continence sites with the sling defining in part, plastic sheath portions fixedly attached to opposite ends of a tubular mesh section. The tubular mesh sling is deployed via a sling transfer instrument having distal and proximal ends with the instrument comprising in part a progressively curved shaft portion positioned between the distal and proximal ends. A handle is located on the instrument's proximal end and a tip portion on the instrument's distal end. Both a transvaginal instrument and a suprapubic instrument for sling transfer is disclosed as is a spacing device used to position the sling without tension.
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