Patent ID: 7229404

Claim:
A surgical device forming a surgical prosthesis, designed to provide support to a physiological, mammalian organ that can be supported, comprising: a) at least one first support component to provide support comprising a sling, with a first end and a second end designed to exert a supporting action on said physiological mammalian organ requiring support; said sling being made at least partially of a substantially inextensible but flexible and deformable material; b) at least one first traction component, which can be connected at least temporarily with at least one end of said sling support component, made of a substantially inextensible material enabling to pull on the sling support component and maintain same in place in a position providing said support; c) at least one first anchoring system, designed to cooperate with at least said first traction component, to fix said sling support component and keep same in the correct position; said first anchoring system comprising a cage-forming device with an upper end and a lower end, the upper end being fitted with a sliding component wherein the sliding component of the anchoring system is configured to act as a pulley, around which the traction component can slide or translate to pull on one end of the sling to provide support to said organ and keep said organ in support position, wherein the upper end and the lower end of the cage-forming device of the anchoring system are joined to one another by a series of lateral bridging arms made of a substantially inextensible but flexible and deformable material being long enough to induce a kinking at the vicinity of their mid-point by pulling on the traction component to allow a so-called umbrella-type positioning with a broad surface of fixation or anchoring of the anchoring system.