Surgery – Instruments – Sutureless closure
Patent
1998-01-13
2000-03-07
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Sutureless closure
606 74, 606103, 606151, A61B 1703
Patent
active
060334290
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for closing a first side of a severed bone with a second side of a severed bone of a patient. The system includes a first anchor mechanism which is adapted to enter into the first side of the bone and a second anchor mechanism which is adapted to anchor into the second side of the bone. The second anchor mechanism is separate and remote from the first anchor mechanism. The system also includes a lash that extends through the first and second anchor mechanisms and which binds the first side of the severed bone with the second side of the severed bone. Preferably, the lash comprises a wire made of stainless steel or suture material. A method for closing a first side of a severed bone with a second side of a severed bone. The method includes the steps of anchoring a first anchor mechanism into the first side of the severed bone, anchoring a second anchor mechanism into a second side of the severed bone, extending a lash through a first opening of a housing of the first anchor mechanism in the first side, extending the lash through a second opening of a housing of the second anchor mechanism, pulling the lash until the first side and second side are contacting each other, and fixing the lash so the first side and second side maintain contact with each other.
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Buiz Michael
Cardiac Assist Technologies, Inc.
Reip David O.
Schwartz Ansel M.
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