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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2013
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Ilya S. Koyfman, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Uri Herzberg, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of repairing a hernia using a hernia mesh support device includes providing a hernia mesh support device, reducing a hernia within a patient's abdomen, inserting the hernia mesh support device into the abdomen and positioning the device in alignment with the hernia, ensuring that no abdominal organs are present between the device and the abdominal wall, whereby the step of ensuring that no abdominal organ is between the device and the abdominal wall includes the step of digitally sweeping the space between the abdominal wall and the device, removing a protective cover, and pulling on a pull strap joined to an inner ring to place the device tightly against the abdominal wall and to anchor barbed pins and hollow needles into the abdominal wall.