Patent ID: 6565590
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
A method for a laparoscopic hernia repair through a preperitoneal space in a body having an abdominal cavity with an abdominal wall and a peritoneum overlying the abdominal cavity, the abdominal wall and the peritoneum being adjacent to each other and being interconnected by tissue forming a natural separation plane and a preperitoneal area overlying the peritoneum, comprising making an incision in the abdominal wall opening into the preperitoneal area, introducing a balloon in a deflated condition into the incision and into the preperitoneal area, inflating the balloon to cause dissecting of the tissue in the preperitoneal area along the natural separation plane to create a dissected preperitoneal space, deflating the balloon, removing the balloon from the dissected preperitoneal space, inflating the dissected preperitoneal space with a gas, performing a hernia repair in the inflated dissected preperitoneal space and deflating the dissected preperitoneal space.