35 results about "Umbilical hernia" patented technology

An implantable prosthesis for repairing an anatomical defect, such as a tissue or muscle wall hernia, including an umbilical hernia, and for preventing the occurrence of a hernia at a small opening or weakness in a tissue or muscle wall, such as at a puncture tract opening remaining after completion of a laparoscopic procedure. The prosthesis includes a patch and / or plug having a body portion that is larger than a portion of the opening or weakness so that placement of the body portion against the defect will cover or extend across that portion of the opening or weakness. At least one tether, such as a strap, extends from the patch or plug and may be manipulated by a surgeon to position the patch or plug relative to the repair site and / or to secure the patch or plug relative to the opening or weakness in the tissue or muscle wall. The tether may be configured to extend through the defect and outside a patient's body to allow a surgeon to position and / or manipulate the patch from a location outside the body. An indicator may be provided on the tether as an aid for a surgeon in determining when the patch or plug has been inserted a sufficient distance within the patient. A support member may be arranged in or on the patch or plug to help deploy the patch or plug at the surgical site and / or help inhibit collapse or buckling of the patch or plug. The patch or plug may be configured with a pocket or cavity to facilitate the deployment and / or positioning of the patch or plug over the opening or weakness.

An exterior-applied Chinese medicine for treating abdominal external hernia is prepared from 6 Chinese-medicinal materials including dogwood fruit, atractylodes, rhizome, pepper, cinammon bark, etc through baking, grinding and mixing with sesame oil.

The invention relates to an externally applied traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating umbilical hernia and an umbilical hernia treating bag containing lychee seed and rhizoma cimicifugae. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from radix astragali, angelica, bighead atractylodes rhizome, rhizoma cimicifugae, radix bupleuri, dried orange peel, toosendan fruit, Evodia rutaecarpa, lychee seed, fennel, clove, asarum, safflower and the like. The umbilical hernia treating bag comprises a bellyband body and fastening belts, wherein the inner side of the bellyband body is provided with a square or circular inner bag, and a medicine core pad containing the traditional Chinese medicine composition is filled in the inner bag. In the invention, traditional Chinese medicines with the functions of tonifying middle-Jiao and qi, soothing the liver and strengthening the spleen are used for umbilical skin absorption and physical support for treating infantile umbilical hernia. By utilizing the externally applied traditional Chinese medicine composition, the defect of long treatment course in self-recovery and conservative treatment of umbilical hernia and the defectthat the sick children can feel painful in the operative treatment are solved. The invention has the characteristics of obvious curative effect and short treatment course, and the patients can not feel painful and have no skin irritation symptom or anaphylaxis. The invention is suitable for children with tender viscera, is also suitable for clinical features of children, and can promote the children with umbilical hernia to grow up healthily. The raw materials in the prescription are conventional traditional Chinese medicines, thus, the invention has the advantages of wide raw material sources, low cost and simple technique, and is easy for popularization.

An implantable prosthesis for repairing a muscular wall defect such as a hernia, especially for repairing an umbilical or paraumbilical hernia and possibly a ventral or meniscal hernia, the implantable prosthesis comprising: a surgically associated An upper sheet (1) of capacitive mesh or polytetrafluoroethylene material and a lower button (2) of a surgically compatible mesh or polytetrafluoroethylene material (3), such as a composite polypropylene mesh / PTFE. The lower buttons are connected to the upper sheet by bridges (5), but spaced apart. The innermost surface of the button (2) comprises a visceral adhesion inhibiting material (4) of polytetrafluoroethylene or equivalent material.