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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2013
Ams Research, Llc, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Mona J. Inman, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Kevin R. Arnal, Excelsior, MN (US);
Matthew J. Monarski, Victoria, MN (US);
Robert L. Rykhus, Jr., Edina, MN (US);
Suranjan Roychowdhury, Plymouth, MN (US);
Jeffrey A. Lechner-Riehle, Burnsville, MN (US);
Eric S. Watschke, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
Surgical procedures, kits and implants for alleviating human incontinence, and particularly providing improved methods and apparatus to secure a urethral sling () to pubic bone () to support the urethra and alleviate incontinence are disclosed. Bone anchors () are driven into pubic bones with elongated bone anchor sutures () configured to be passed through openings of a urethral sling. Suture retainers are applied to the sutures to apply retentive force to the urethral sling to maintain the fixation of the urethral sling proximate to the pubic bone.