Patent ID: 8591512
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. An implant configured for implantation adjacent to or within target portions of bone to stabilize the target portions of bone in a desired spatial relation to one another, the implant comprising: a deformable gas tight sack comprising a first chamber in fluid communication with an obturatable opening, the sack including a second chamber in fluid communication with the first chamber via a connecting element opened and closed by a control member; and a filling material filling each of the first and second chambers and, in an initial configuration, a fluid surrounding the filling material so that, in the initial configuration, the implant is in a flexible insertion state; wherein, when the fluid surrounding the filling material is removed from the first and second chambers through the opening, a wall of the sack deforms around and presses against the filling material to hold the filling material, transitioning the implant from the insertion state to a relatively rigid fixation state in which the implant is fixable in the target portions of bone.