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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Aprevent Medical Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventors:
Assignee:
APREVENT MEDICAL INC., , KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/20 (2013.01); A61F 2002/206 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0003 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0012 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0075 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method to treat glottic insufficiency includes creating a window in a thyroid cartilage and inserting an implant through the window and into a paraglottic space. The implant includes a balloon with a port connector and a band comprising a proximate end attached to a portion of the balloon. The method further includes securing the band to a thyroarytenoid muscle complex and inflating the balloon to pull on the band, which in turn pulls on the thyroarytenoid muscle, which in turn rotates an arytenoids cartilage to medialize and tighten a vocal cord.