WO2000015158A1 - Dispositif de constriction gastrique - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F5/00—Orthopaedic methods or devices for non-surgical treatment of bones or joints; Nursing devices; Anti-rape devices
- A61F5/0003—Apparatus for the treatment of obesity; Anti-eating devices
- A61F5/0013—Implantable devices or invasive measures
- A61F5/005—Gastric bands
- A61F5/0053—Gastric bands remotely adjustable
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B17/00—Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets
- A61B17/12—Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels, umbilical cord
- A61B17/12009—Implements for ligaturing other than by clamps or clips, e.g. using a loop with a slip knot
- A61B17/12013—Implements for ligaturing other than by clamps or clips, e.g. using a loop with a slip knot for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/02—Prostheses implantable into the body
- A61F2/48—Operating or control means, e.g. from outside the body, control of sphincters
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/02—Prostheses implantable into the body
- A61F2/30—Joints
- A61F2002/30001—Additional features of subject-matter classified in A61F2/28, A61F2/30 and subgroups thereof
- A61F2002/30667—Features concerning an interaction with the environment or a particular use of the prosthesis
- A61F2002/30668—Means for transferring electromagnetic energy to implants
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2250/00—Special features of prostheses classified in groups A61F2/00 - A61F2/26 or A61F2/82 or A61F9/00 or A61F11/00 or subgroups thereof
- A61F2250/0001—Means for transferring electromagnetic energy to implants
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a constriction device, at least partially implantable in the human or animal body.
- the invention will be more particularly described with respect to a gastric constriction device of the "gastroplasty ring" type, which can be used for the treatment of morbid obesity.
- the invention is not however limited to such an application or use.
- the invention also finds its utility in various medical interventions on man or on animals, in which it is necessary to obtain temporarily or permanently, constriction, if necessary an occlusion of an organ or a conduit or channel.
- morbid obesity is meant the fact that a person is overweight at least 45 kg, or at least equal to his ideal weight, as can be established by according to its size, and by means of a table for calculating the body mass index.
- a gastric constriction device comprising firstly a gastric constriction member forming in its operating configuration a ring, for example comprising a flexible band, the two ends of which are adjacent one compared to the other in the operating configuration, provided with an inflatable balloon, surrounding the external wall of the stomach, secondly a means of actuation of the organ of gastric constriction, for example a valve or injector of fluid for injecting or introducing said fluid into the balloon, and thirdly a means for remote control of the actuating means, for example a fluid introduction chamber, located just below the skin in a relatively easy place of access for the sick.
- control means and the actuation means are connected by a flexible conduit, such as a catheter, making it possible to transmit the fluid from the chamber to the actuation means.
- a flexible conduit such as a catheter
- Such a device has the advantage that it can be introduced into the body by laparoscopy or laparoscopy, which significantly reduces trauma and post-operative complications associated with surgical intervention, compared to the so-called "open" route. , that is to say conventional abdominal surgery; but such a device has the disadvantage that the chamber is quite bulky in the long term.
- a device corresponding to the preceding description has been developed, and is known for example, from the work of Doctor Kuzmak, and reference will usefully be made to patents or patent applications WO-A-92/02182, US-A-4,592 339,
- a constriction device at least partially implantable in the human or animal body, comprising a constriction member forming in its operating configuration a ring, said constriction member comprising a flexible band, the two ends of which are adjacent one with respect to the other in the operating configuration, as well as a means of actuation of the constriction member.
- a remote-controlled pump can transmit the liquid from the compensation reservoir to the gastric band, and vice versa, via an electrical control unit.
- the latter is mounted with the pump in a control box implanted under the patient's skin.
- the inflation of the gastric band promotes the appearance of folds on its inner wall, in contact with the stomach. Uniform constriction is therefore no longer applied to the periphery of the stomach, and the risk of trapping the stomach wall in a fold increases.
- the pump is powered by a source of electrical energy, implanted in the body, which can be dangerous, depending on the materials of which such a source is made, for example an electric battery.
- the present invention therefore provides a constriction device to overcome these drawbacks, and to adjust very precisely, and reproducibly, the constriction applied to any organ or conduit of the human or animal body, while avoiding or limiting the surgical intervention required for adjustment.
- At least one end of the flexible strip comprises a towable element, making it possible to move said end relative to the other end, generating a radial deformation of the constriction member
- the actuating means comprises a member for pulling the towable element.
- the towable element is lamellate.
- the flexible strip is fixed by one of these ends to the body of the actuating means, and comprises the towable element on the side of its other end.
- Said towable element comprises traction means, for example notches, capable of cooperating with the traction member of the actuating means.
- the device of the present invention is also remarkable in that, in the ready-to-girdle configuration of the constriction member, between these two ends, the flexible strip is composed of a first element comprising a first fixing member, by male example, and a second element comprising a second complementary fixing member, for example female, the first element being connected to the second element by definitive coupling of the complementary fixing members, in order to obtain the operating configuration of the constriction member.
- the fixed end of the flexible strip is traversed by a longitudinal and through hole, capable of receiving a tongue of reduced width of the towable element.
- the constriction member comprises a sheath made of bio-compatible, compressible or foldable material, enclosing the flexible strip. This sheath ensures biological compatibility of the constriction organ with the external wall of the stomach because the gastric constriction device must remain in place for a relatively long period, in order to obtain a satisfactory clinical result, and it therefore preferable to decrease, as much as possible, the risk of injury due to contact of a foreign body with the tissues of the stomach wall.
- the actuating means comprises a bi-directional motor coupled to the traction member.
- the traction member meshes with the traction means to move the towable element in a longitudinal and circumferential direction of the constriction member.
- the traction member is a tangential screw, while the traction means are notches, regularly spaced apart from one another, transverse with respect to the longitudinal direction, and the thread of the tangential screw has the same pitch as that separating the traction notches.
- the constriction device comprises a protective shell having a part made of rigid material, forming the motor housing, and a part made of bio-compatible flexible material, compressible or foldable, forming the sheath of the flexible band.
- the housing and the sheath form a single piece.
- the sheath has material recesses on either side of the flexible strip, and / or preformed folds, allowing said sheath to bend in an orderly and regular manner, during the radial deformation of the member. constriction.
- the device comprises or is associated with a remote control means.
- the latter may comprise an extra-corporeal transmitter and an intra-corporeal receiver, the latter comprising a means of processing a signal transmitted by the transmitter on the one hand, and of transmitting a control signal by means of actuation on the other hand.
- the processing means may include a single electrical circuit arranged to convey both control information and energy to the actuating means.
- the processing means can comprise an electrical circuit constituted by a resonant induction coil, a rectifier, a pulse generator, at least one shift register circuit, and a circuit for controlling the direction of travel of the means. actuation.
- the receiver of the control means is arranged at a distance from the constriction member, and electrically connected to the actuation means.
- the extracorporeal transmitter comprises an electrical circuit constituted by a power supply, an oscillator, an amplifier circuit and a primary induction coil.
- the transmitter can also further comprise at least one frequency selection member of the oscillator.
- the constriction device according to the invention is also remarkable in that the actuating means is arranged to stably maintain the relative position of the two ends of the flexible strip, one with respect to the other, in the absence of energy input to said actuation means.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view, partially cut away from the abdomen of a human body, in which part of a gastric constriction device according to the invention has been implanted;
- - Figure 2 is a perspective view, partially broken away, of the part of the gastric constriction device according to the invention, implantable in the human body;
- - Figure 3 is a sectional view of the gastric constriction member, in its operating configuration, and the actuating means of a device according to the invention; the constriction member is shown in the undeformed state, with a maximum cross section of the constriction ring.
- - Figure 4 is a sectional view of the constriction member of Figure 3, during actuation; the constriction ring has a reduced cross section compared to that shown in FIG. 3.
- FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the electrical circuits of the remote control means of a gastric constriction device according to the invention.
- FIG. 6 is a more detailed schematic view of one of the electrical circuits of Figure 5;
- FIG. 7 is a perspective, developed and flat view of the flexible strip belonging to the constriction member shown in FIGS. 2 to 4.
- This device comprises a gastric constriction member 2 substantially forming a constriction ring of variable cross section 61, an actuation means 3 of the gastric constriction member 2, and a control means 4 remote from the actuation means 3.
- the gastric constriction device 1 is partially implanted in the body 5, shown diagrammatically, the constriction member 2 forming a ring surrounding the external wall of the stomach 6, so as to create an upper pocket 7, of reduced size, and a lower pocket 8, larger than the upper pocket.
- the passage of food from the esophagus 9 is limited, firstly by the restricted volume of the upper pocket 7, and secondly by the degree of constriction applied by the constriction member 2.
- the flow of food is controlled, for example to make a person suffering from morbid obesity lose weight.
- the control means 4 comprises a transmitter 10, and a receiver 1 1, the receiver 1 1 comprising a means for processing a signal transmitted by the transmitter 10, and for transmitting a control signal to the means actuation 3, in order to be able to precisely adjust the degree of constriction of the constriction member 2.
- the transmitter 10 and the receiver 11, as well as the means composing them, will be described in more detail below.
- the receiver 11 of the control means 4 is placed at a distance from the constriction member 2, and electrically connected, by a wire 28, to the actuation means 3.
- the constriction member 2 comprises a flexible strip 1 2, lamelliform, for example made of polyethylene or polypropylene, and a sheath 14 made of flexible biocompatible, compressible or foldable material, for example in silicone, containing a flexible strip 1 2.
- This sheath allows to ensure a reduction of the traumas undergone by the external wall of the stomach, during the movements of the latter against the constriction member 2, during the passage of food from the upper pocket 7 to the lower pocket 8.
- the sheath 14 be made of a compressible or foldable material, so that that it does not interfere with this increase or reduction in the cross-section 61 of constriction.
- the flexible strip can have any shape other than lamelliform, for example a circular section.
- the flexible strip 1 2 has a configuration in the form of a loop, the two ends 1 2a and 1 2b, or extreme strands, are one (1 2a) fixed, and the other mobile (1 2b), according to a predetermined trajectory.
- the two ends 1 2a and 1 2b are and remain adjacent to each other, overlapping or overlapping along a trajectory of relative movement, linear but curved, for example circumferential, but concentrically l relative to each other, according to the degree of constriction desired, and this with the actuating means 3 described below.
- the movable end 1 2b So as to move relative to the fixed end 12a, the movable end 1 2b, on the one hand this comprises a towable element 1 3, itself lamelliform, and on the other hand the actuating means 3 comprises a traction member 25 of the towable element, for moving the mobile end 1 2b of the flexible strip 1 2 relative to the fixed end 1 2a, generating a radial deformation of the constriction member 2, and more precisely a variable cross-section 61 of constriction.
- the end 1 2a of the flexible strip 1 2 is fixed by a means
- traction means for example notches 1 5 capable of cooperating with the traction member 25 .
- the fixed end 12a of the flexible strip 1 2 is traversed by a lumen 17a, longitudinal and through, capable of receiving a tongue 1 3a of reduced width the towable element 1 3.
- the developed length of the lumen 1 7a is adapted to the travel of the end 1 2b relative to the end 1 2a, along the overlapping path, namely in this case, of insertion of the free end 1 2b relative to the fixed end 1 2a.
- the sheath 14 can have extensible properties so as to improve the contact with the member subjected to constriction. Indeed, it is then possible to start from an initial position without constriction of the flexible strip 1 2, in which the sheath 14 is stretched. During constriction, the sheath 14 then follows the retracted shape of the flexible strip 1 2 by contracting.
- the element 1 3 at the end 1 2b is towable by the traction member 25, so that it can be moved in two opposite circumferential longitudinal directions, namely a direction of reduction of the gastric constriction, and a direction of increased gastric constriction.
- the towable element 1 3 preferably has, and as shown schematically in Figure 2, traction notches 1 5, arranged, for example, substantially transversely to the longitudinal direction of the towable element 13, and regularly spaced each other, according to a predetermined pitch, and allowing, in cooperation with the traction member 25 consisting of an endless screw, to move the element 13 in a direction of reduction of the gastric constriction, or on the contrary, in an opposite meaning.
- the traction notches 1 5 can take other forms, for example slots, recesses or teeth, the main thing being that they can cooperate or mesh with the corresponding traction member 25, provided on the actuating means 3.
- the flexible strip 12 is composed of a first element 13 comprising a first fixing member 1 6, for example male, and a second element 17 comprising a second complementary fixing member 18, for example female, the first element 13 being connected to the second element 17 by definitive coupling of the fixing 1 6, 18 complementary.
- This arrangement makes it possible in particular to modulate by constriction the length of the flexible band 1 2, for example to adapt to a diameter of gastric constriction more important, which may be the case in particular if it is desired to create an upper pocket 7 of volume equivalent to the lower pocket 8.
- the free end 1 2a of the flexible strip 1 2, corresponding to the second element 1 7, is crossed, over most of its length and opposite its bearing end the female member 1 8 of connection, by a light 1 7a, longitudinal and emerging, suitable for receiving a tongue
- This part or tongue 1 3a is of reduced width, at least over the length of the overlapping travel of the ends 1 2a and 1 2b.
- the light 1 7a is bordered by two wings 1 7b, the ends of which are bent at 20 to form a fixing member on the body of the actuating means 3.
- the actuating means 3 comprises a bidirectional electric motor 21, which is housed in a protective shell 22 having a part 23 of rigid material forming the motor housing, and a part 24 of flexible biocompatible, compressible or foldable material, forming the sheath 14 of the flexible strip 1 2.
- the shell 22 can be, and preferably is, entirely made in one and the same piece, of biocompatible material, for example, silicone, the hardness or rigidity of the material being suitably chosen, to produce the rigid housing and the flexible sheath.
- This shell 22, obtained for example by molding, makes it possible to provide a seal against biological fluids which could otherwise penetrate into the engine casing, and lead to malfunctions of the latter, or even produce chemical reactions with the components of the motor 21, having an adverse effect on the patient.
- the sheath 14 has material recesses, and / or preformed folds, on either side of the flexible strip 1 2, allowing the sheath 14 to bend in an orderly fashion and regular, during actuation of the constriction member 2, and this along and around the strand of the strip 1 2, the length of which decreases according to the pull of the free end 1 2b of said strip 1 2.
- This also avoids excessive mechanical stress on the motor 21 of the actuating means 1 3, and at the same time makes it possible to overcome the resistance to bending of the constriction member 2.
- the motor 21 is linked in rotation to the traction member 25 cooperating with the notches 1 5 of the towable element 1 3.
- this member 25 is a tangential screw 1 5 wedged on the output shaft 27 of this motor 21, and whose thread 26 meshes with the notches 1 5.
- the longitudinal axes of the screw 25, of the shaft 27 and of the motor 21 are substantially in the transverse median plane of the ring of the constriction member 2.
- the motor 21 is electrically connected to the intracorporeal receiver 1 1 of the control means 4, by one or more electric wires 28.
- the actuating means 3 is arranged to stably maintain the relative position of the two ends 1 2 and 1 2b of the strip 1 2, one relative to the other, in the absence of contribution of energy to said actuating means 3
- the restoring forces to which the strip 1 2 is subjected do not allow the motor 21 to rotate, the rotations of which determine the degree of constriction according to the exemplary embodiment of the conformal constriction device to the invention.
- the strip When the constriction device has been implanted in the body of a patient, and the flexible strip 1 2 closed in its operating configuration, for example by coupling of the complementary fastening members 1 6, 1 8, the strip has substantially the shape of 'a ring, as shown in Figure 3.
- the first traction notches 15 of the towable element 13 are meshed with the thread 26 of the screw 25 to maintain the ring shape of the constriction device 2.
- Figure 4 shows the configuration of the constriction member 2, after actuation of the control means 3, to reduce the diameter of the flexible band 1 2, and therefore increase the gastric constriction.
- the sheath 14, which is made of flexible material, has bent, which allows the tongue 1 3a of the element towable 13 to penetrate into the lumen 1 7a of the end 1 2a, during the movement which is communicated to it by the screw 25.
- the control means 4 comprises, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, an extracorporeal transmitter 1 0, and an intracorporeal receiver 1 1, for example implanted under the skin, for example at the lower limit of the sternum, or in another suitable place.
- the receiver comprises means for processing a signal transmitted by the transmitter 10 and for transmitting 29 a signal for controlling the actuation means 3.
- This means for processing and transmitting 29 a signal can also be arranged close to, or on, the actuating means 3, for example on the shell 22 of the motor 21.
- the extracorporeal transmitter 10 is constituted by an electrical circuit comprising a power supply source 30, for example a battery, supplying an oscillator 31 at three frequencies, namely a charging frequency F1, a forward frequency F2, and a reverse frequency F3.
- the oscillator 31 is connected, on the one hand to two forward control buttons 32 and reverse 33 respectively, and on the other hand to an amplifier circuit 34.
- the amplifier circuit 34 is connected to a resonant coil 35, which has preferably a relatively large diameter relative to the receiver 1 1, for example about 30 cm.
- the resonant coil 35 can be a toric coil of a copper or gold wire, placed in a silicone ring (not shown), and it resonates at an operating frequency, corresponding to one of the three frequencies mentioned above. , when the circuit is supplied from the power source 30.
- the oscillator 31 When the transmitter 10 is powered up, the oscillator 31 emits a first circuit loading frequency F1, which is amplified by the amplifier 34 and sent into the resonant coil 35, and which makes it possible to supply power to the receiver 1 1.
- the induction coil 36 is connected to a diode bridge 37 and to a tuning capacitor 38, which regulates the resonance frequency of the receiver circuit.
- the diode bridge 37 is connected to an electrochemical capacitor 39, allowing sufficient energy to be stored to charge and activate the various circuits of the receiver, and to an adapter circuit 40 for driving the motor motor 21.
- the signal received from the resonant coil 36 in the form of energy passes through the diode bridge 37, which rectifies and filters the signal, and which thus provides a source of energy for the motor and the electrical circuits of the receiver.
- the tuning capacitor 38 is connected by a signal detection diode 41 to a circuit 42 for shaping the frequency received from the tuning capacitor.
- Figure 6 schematically shows the frequency processing circuit shaped and transmitted as a pulse. This signal is transmitted to two shift register circuits 43, 44, for example of the FSK type, a first shift register circuit 43 being programmed to filter a forward frequency F2, and a second shift register circuit 44 being programmed to filter a reverse frequency F3.
- the first shift register circuit 43 comprises an oscillator 46, shifting each pulse received in "AND" gates 47, after a predetermined delay set on the forward frequency.
- the second shift register circuit 44 also includes an oscillator 48, shifting each pulse received in AND gates 49, after a predetermined delay set on the reverse frequency.
- the shift register circuits terminate in two outputs 50, 51, connected to the adapter 40 of motor drive, one triggering the drive in the forward direction, and the other triggering the drive in the reverse direction.
- the transmitter 11 may also be provided with a decoupling capacitor 52 placed between the tuning capacitor 38 and the frequency shaping circuit 42.
- the actuating means 3 does not include a motor, and makes it possible to obtain a stable adjustment. and irreversible from constriction.
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EP99942969A EP1113767B1 (fr) | 1998-09-14 | 1999-09-14 | Dispositif de constriction gastrique |
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AT99942969T ATE282381T1 (de) | 1998-09-14 | 1999-09-14 | Magenband |
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