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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
Bard Shannon Limited, Humacao, PR (US);
Rui Manuel De Melo Soares Da Costa, Porto, PT;
Augusto Manuel De Almeida Lourenço, Guarda, PT;
Bard Shannon Limited, Humacao, PR (US);
Abstract
A method of mending a groinal defect such as an indirect inguinal hernia, a direct inguinal hernia, and/or a femoral hernia. A space between the external oblique aponeurosis and the internal oblique aponeurosis is dissected superiorly and laterally to create a site for receiving a lateral portion of a prosthetic repair patch. Dissection medially and inferiorly between the two aponeuroses leads to a transversalis fascia, which is explored downwardly and, at the pubic bone, dissected to reach the preperitoneal space of Retzius. A medial portion of a prosthetic repair patch may be positioned in the space of Retzius with a lateral portion of the prosthetic repair patch positioned in the dissected space between the two aponeuroses. So positioned, the prosthetic repair patch protects the myopectineal orifice that is susceptible to each of the indirect inguinal hernia, direct inguinal hernia, and femoral hernia.