US 12,343,007 B2
Knotless tissue repair
Samuel Bachmaier, Mauern (DE); Jeremy B. Stephens, Naples, FL (US); John P. Gualdoni, Naples, FL (US); Jacob A. Jolly, Naples, FL (US); Justin M. Boyle, Naples, FL (US); and Andrew K. Osika, Naples, FL (US)
Assigned to Arthrex, Inc., Naples, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/271,506
Filed by Arthrex, Inc., Naples, FL (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/049096
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/047431, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/725,328, filed on Aug. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0196264 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/06166 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of knotless tissue repair, the method comprising:
threading a first free end of a flexible strand of a knotless surgical construct through a first splice region in the flexible strand to create a first adjustable closed loop;
passing the first adjustable closed loop through a tear in tissue such that a loop end of the first adjustable closed loop is located at one side of the tear and the first splice region is located at the other side of the tear;
passing a second free end of the flexible strand through the loop end of the first adjustable closed loop and threading the second free end through a second splice region in the flexible strand to create a second adjustable closed loop that is interlinked with the first adjustable closed loop such that the first and second adjustable closed loops form a doubled repair loop that is adjustable; and
pulling the first and second free ends of the flexible strand to decrease the perimeters of the first and second adjustable closed loops, respectively, thereby decreasing the perimeter of the doubled repair loop, until the tear in the tissue is closed without the use of knots or fixation devices.