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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2007
Applicant:
Michel Andre Bachmann, Vaux sur Morges, CH;
Inventor:
Michel Andre Bachmann, Vaux sur Morges, CH;
Assignee:
Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention concerns a surgical ring, configured to be implanted around a biological organ having a pouch or a duct shape. A surgical ring according to the present invention forms a closed loop around the organ, altering its diameter. Variations in ring diameter are reversibly controlled by a system that, in one embodiment, includes a flexible filiform element slidably disposed within the body of the ring and coupled to a first extremity of the ring and also to an actuator disposed near a second extremity of the ring.