US 12,263,075 B2
Self-expandable surgical implant for correcton of congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Jose Peiro Ibanez, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Cristobal Abello Munarriz, Barranquilla (CO)
Assigned to Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Cristobal Abello Munarriz, Barranquilla (CO)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/513,858.
Application 18/513,858 is a division of application No. 16/824,057, filed on Mar. 19, 2020, granted, now 11,819,398.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/820,395, filed on Mar. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0090992 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. A61F 2/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/0063 (2013.01) [A61F 2002/0068 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0072 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0057 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0076 (2013.01); A61F 2220/005 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0039 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of attaching a surgical implant to a diaphragmatic hernia comprising the steps of:
providing a surgical implant including a body having a proximal member, a distal member coupled to the proximal member, a peripheral pocket defined by a reentrant outer lip of the distal member extending around an outer edge of the proximal member, and a support ring received within the peripheral pocket and configured to apply tension to the body;
folding the surgical implant;
passing the folded surgical implant from a thoracic compartment, through a diaphragmatic rim, and into an abdominal cavity;
expanding the support ring to apply tension to the body of the surgical implant;
pulling a central suture coupled to the body to stabilize the surgical implant against the diaphragmatic rim; and
suturing the body of the surgical implant to the diaphragmatic rim.