	US 12,102,315 B2
	Methods for passing a posterior button suture for medical procedures
Mason Bettenga, Memphis, TN (US); and Pascal Boileau, Nice (FR)
Assigned to Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US); Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, (CH); and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore (SG)
Appl. No. 17/052,393
Filed by Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US); Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Zug (CH); and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Singapore (SG)
PCT Filed May 1, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/030275 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 2, 2020, PCT Pub. No. WO2019/213317, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/665,684, filed on May 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0085309 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01)

CPC A61B 17/0401 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0482 (2013.01); A61B 17/0485 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0404 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01)]

8 Claims

1. A method for suspension fixation of a graft or implant, the method comprising:

drilling a hole through a glenoid from an anterior side of the glenoid via an anterior portal;

passing a pin having a first end and a second end pre-assembled to a first flexible member through the hole in the glenoid via the anterior portal and out past a posterior side of the glenoid such that both the first and second ends of the pin are spaced apart from a posterior surface of the glenoid on the posterior side;

securing the first flexible member to a second flexible member attached to a posterior fixation member;

retrieving the first flexible member anteriorly so as to pass the second flexible member through the hole in the glenoid and draw the posterior fixation member into contact with the posterior surface of the glenoid; and

securing a graft or implant to an anterior surface of the glenoid via suspension fixation between the posterior fixation member and an anterior fixation member.