Patent ID: 6638210
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
An assembly for delivery of a tape into the abdomen of a human female through the vagina to serve as a pubovaginal sling in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence, said assembly comprisinga pair of curved substantially rigid delivery needles adapted for bilateral insertion into the abdomen of a human female for placement on either side of the bladder neck adjacent the urethra, the delivery needles together defining a delivery path for said tape; means for removable attachment of each one of said pair of delivery needles to one end of said tape introduced through the vagina; and a pair of curved tubular substantially flexible delivery sheaths, each one of said pair of delivery sheaths defining a delivery sheath passageway disposed in the interior thereof and adapted to removably receive one of said pair of delivery needles such that the delivery sheaths are situated along said delivery path, whereby each one of said pair of delivery needles may be withdrawn from the abdomen through said delivery sheath passageway and may thereby conduct one end of said tape from the vagina and through said delivery sheath passageway, and thereby position said tape along said delivery path.