EP3188694A1 - Stent for percutaneous vertebroplasty - Google Patents
Stent for percutaneous vertebroplastyInfo
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a stent for percutaneous vertebroplasty having a substantially tubular body which is convertible from a compressed state to an expanded state, the wall of the tubular body providing a plurality of expansion in both the longitudinal and circumferential directions of the stent Has openings.
- Such stents are used in percutaneous vertebroplasty for the treatment of vertebral body fractures.
- the stents are introduced percutaneously in a minimally invasive manner via an application cannula into the vertebral body to be treated, wherein the stent is in its compressed state. After the stent has been placed within the collapsed vertebral body, which is usually done by X-ray observation, the stent is transferred from its compressed state to its expanded state.
- the stent is placed inside the vertebral body so that when the stent is expanded, the collapsed vertebral body expands accordingly until its original vertebral body height is restored. At the same time a cavity for the subsequent injection of bone cement in the vertebral body is created by the expansion of the stent, whereby a final stabilization of the reconstructed vertebral body occurs.
- a problem with the known stents is that, in some cases, further fractures of the vertebral body may occur due to the forces occurring during expansion of the stent. It is an object of the present invention to provide a stent with which the occurrence of additional fractures during introduction and expansion of the stent can at least be reduced. Based on a stent of the type mentioned above, this object is achieved in that the stent, at least in the expanded state has a deviating from the circular cross-sectional shape.
- stents for percutaneous vertebroplasty usually have a circular cross-sectional shape both in the compressed and in the expanded state.
- the stent is made for example of a tubular body with a small diameter (for example, 0.5 to 3 mm), are cut in the closed body wall openings, for example in slot or other shapes. Upon expansion of the stent, these openings are widened to form a stent of increased diameter (e.g., 0.5 to 3 cm). Due to the originally tubular shape of the basic body with a circular cross-section, the circular cross section usually remains in the expanded state, whereby only the diameter of the circular cross section increases.
- stents which consist of interwoven, welded or otherwise interconnected wire elements, so that here the openings are not formed by appropriate cutting operations, but by existing between individual wire loops clearances. When expanding, these free spaces are also widened, so that the stent can be transferred from its compressed state to its expanded state.
- Such stents also usually have a circular cross-section, both in the compressed state and in the expanded state, since stents have always been developed for vessels with a circular cross-section. According to the invention, it has been found that the observed additional fractures during expansion of the stent are often caused by the fact that the contact area between the stent and the vertebral body during expansion or after expansion is essentially limited to two linear contact areas.
- the stent at least in the expanded state, has a cross-sectional shape deviating from the circular shape, it is possible to provide a stent in which the bearing surface of the vertebral bodies is enlarged upon expansion of the stent or at least after expansion has taken place.
- the force acting on the vertebral body during and after expansion of the stent is distributed over a larger area, so that the risk of additional fractures of the vertebral body can be significantly reduced.
- the stent in the compressed state has a circular cross-section, which is changed only upon expansion of the stent in an enlarged, non-circular cross-section.
- This embodiment has the advantage that the stent can be applied in the compressed state with a circular cross section on a Ein 1500katheter, which usually also has a circular cross-section, whereby on the one hand, the total diameter of the delivery catheter with attached stent can be minimized and on the other with no special catheter non-circular cross section is needed.
- the insertion through usually a circular inner lumen owning Application needles is simplified in such a configuration.
- the application needles may have a minimum inner lumen adapted to the circular cross-section of the compressed stent.
- the stent has at least one flattened longitudinal side, in particular two, three, four or more flattened longitudinal sides, at least in the expanded state.
- the stent has two flattened longitudinal sides, which are arranged opposite one another. The flattened longitudinal sides produce the desired enlarged bearing surface between the stent and the inner surfaces of the vertebral body during expansion of the stent.
- the flattened longitudinal sides can be formed essentially flat or slightly curved.
- the curvature must not be so strong that the support surface between the stent and the vertebral body, as in the known stents with a circular cross section, is reduced to a linear support area.
- the stent has a cross-sectional shape deviating from the circular shape even in the compressed state, it can have flattened longitudinal sides in the compressed state which correspond to the flattened longitudinal sides in the expanded state.
- the stent at least in the expanded state, has a substantially polygonal, rectangular, substantially square or oval cross-sectional shape.
- the cross-section in the compressed state is preferably circular, but in principle may also correspond to the polygonal, rectangular, square or oval cross-section of the expanded state.
- the polygonal, rectangular, square or oval cross-sectional shape is not to be understood mathematically exact.
- the sides of the polygonal, rectangular or square cross-sectional shape need not be exactly rectilinear, but may also be slightly curved, so that correspondingly slightly curved bearing surfaces are formed, as already described in the preceding paragraph.
- This also applies to the corners of the polygonal, rectangular or square cross-sectional shape, which need not be formed exactly at right angles, but may also include a slightly different angle of 90 ° and / or in particular may also be rounded.
- the stent in the expanded state has a substantially rectangular, in particular substantially square, cross-sectional shape and four flattened longitudinal sides, of which two in each case substantially parallel to each other, are arranged opposite one another.
- the two opposite longitudinal sides which come into contact with the upper and lower inner surfaces of the vertebral body during expansion, thus form surface-optimized, pressure-minimized abutment surfaces of the stent.
- the two perpendicular sides form force-optimized erection sides of the stent.
- the stent has the cross-sectional shape deviating from the circular shape at least over a partial region of its longitudinal extension, in particular in a central region.
- the deviating from the circular shape cross-sectional shape is to be present in particular in the portion of the stent, which comes in supportive contact with the vertebral body during expansion of the stent to form the required contact surface between stent and vertebral body.
- the stent may in particular have a circular cross-sectional shape at one or both ends of the stent, as long as the substantial force transmission between the stent and the vertebral body takes place over the partial region with a cross-sectional shape deviating from the circular shape.
- the stent comprises, at least in the expanded state, an end which tapers in the axial direction.
- the other end of the stent can advantageously also be designed to be tapered.
- the configuration of the taper ie, for example, the corresponding cone angle and the length of the tapered region, at both ends the same or, as needed, be different.
- the tapered ends or the tapered end of the stent may be substantially conical, frusto-conical, pyramidal or pyramidal-truncated.
- the formation of an end which tapers in the axial direction ensures that the stent, in the expanded state, is provided with a substantially "closed" end at the end is.
- the tapered end prevents or at least reduces undesired lateral flow of the bone cement introduced into the stent after expansion of the stent.
- the taper can be designed such that one or both ends of the stent are substantially closed after expansion of the stent or are formed only with a relatively small opening in order to prevent or reduce the undesired flow of the bone cement.
- the other end of the stent has substantially the same cross-sectional shape and / or the same cross-sectional area as the middle region of the stent.
- a stent according to the invention may thus have a tapered end, which causes a closed or almost closed configuration of this end of the stent, while the other end is provided with an end opening which either corresponds to the clear width of the stent in its central region or only slightly smaller is.
- both ends of the stent have substantially the same cross-sectional shape and / or the same cross-sectional area as the middle region of the stent.
- the stent can thus have a uniform width and height or a uniform cross-sectional shape in the expanded state, so that the body of the stent in the expanded state is substantially parallelepiped-shaped with open end faces.
- the stent can be designed as a balloon-expandable stent.
- the stent made of stainless steel, titanium or other biocompatible material, in particular metal or plastic. It is also possible to use a biodegradable material, in particular a biodegradable metal or polymer.
- Such a balloon expandable stent is introduced with a balloon catheter into the vertebral body and expanded by appropriate dilation of the balloon from its compressed to its expanded state with simultaneous expansion of the buried vertebral body. After restoration of the original vertebral body height, the balloon catheter is removed and the stent filled with bone cement so that the stability of the stent and thus of the vertebral body is enhanced in addition to the stability introduced by the stent.
- the stent is designed as a self-expanding stent.
- the material of the stent comprises a shape memory material, for example a shape memory alloy (memory metal), in particular nitinol, or a shape memory plastic (shape memory polymer).
- shape memory material for example a shape memory alloy (memory metal), in particular nitinol, or a shape memory plastic (shape memory polymer).
- shape memory material for example a shape memory alloy (memory metal), in particular nitinol, or a shape memory plastic (shape memory polymer).
- the stent may consist entirely of a corresponding shape-memory material or only substantially of such a shape-memory material. Even with a self-expanding stent, the use of a biodegradable dierbaren material, in particular a biodegradable metal or polymer, as a stent material possible.
- both a balloon expanding stent and a self-expanding stent may have an additional biocompatible coating.
- the coating may be formed so that only the material of the tubular body is encased, so that when expanding the stent, the expansion ensuring openings remain free.
- the tubular body is covered with a flexible coating, such as a foil, which expands as the stent expands, thereby covering the openings in the wall of the tubular body. In this way, a dense stent, i. a stent with a tight outer wall, are formed.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a stent for percutaneous vertebroplasty according to the prior art
- FIG. 2 is a simplified perspective view of the stent of FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 shows a cross section along the section line AA of Fig. 2nd 1 in the compressed state, a vertebral body according to FIG. 4 with an expanded stent, another compressed vertebral body with two inserted stents according to FIG. 1 in the compressed state, the vertebral body according to claim 6 with expanded Stents, a schematic perspective view of a stent according to the invention with a square cross section, a cross section through the stent of FIG. 8, a slightly modified cross-sectional shape, a schematic representation of a compressed vertebral body with inserted stent of FIG. 8 in the compressed state, the vertebral body of FIG. 1 1 with expanded stent, a schematic view of a compressed vertebral body with two inserted stents of FIG. 8 in the compressed state,
- FIG. 14 shows the vertebral body of FIG. 13 in the expanded state
- FIG. FIG. 15 shows a schematic side view of the stent according to FIG. 8.
- 19 to 21 are schematic representations of various cross-sectional shapes of a stent according to the invention.
- stent 1 shows a stent 1 with a tubular body 2 having a lattice structure, so that in the wall of the body 2 a multiplicity of openings 3 which are repeated both in the longitudinal direction and in the circumferential direction of the stent 1 are formed.
- Fig. 2 shows the same stent 1 in a simplified perspective view, from which it can be seen more clearly that the stent 1 has a circular cross-section.
- the circular cross section of the stent 1 is identical over the entire length of the stent 1, so that the body 2 forms a cylinder jacket with openings 3.
- the openings 3 are diamond-shaped and formed by the stent 1 is transferred from a not shown compressed state with significantly reduced diameter in the expanded state shown in Fig. 1 and Fig.
- the openings 3 are widened to the expansion to enable.
- the openings 3 may be formed, for example, as slit-shaped openings which extend parallel to each other in parallel in the axial direction, wherein adjacent slot-shaped openings are arranged alternately offset from each other in the circumferential direction.
- the circular cross-section of the stent 1 is shown in Fig. 3 again in a simplified form.
- the stent according to FIGS. 1 to 3 is a stent for percutaneous vertebroplasty known from the prior art.
- FIG. 4 such a stent 1 in the illustrated compressed state, ie, with a reduced diameter, is inserted into the vertebral body cavity 4 of a collapsed vertebral body 5.
- the insertion takes place in a known manner by means of a Ein Fabric Sciencekatheters.
- the stent 1 is expanded after successful placement, for example via a balloon catheter in its expanded state shown in Fig. 5. Due to the circular cross-section of the stent 1, this comes into contact with the inner sides 6, 7 of the vertebral body 5 only via line-shaped support points 8, 9, via which the entire erection force is introduced into the vertebral body 5 as the stent expands further. Therefore, in the region of the linear support points 8, 9, an additional break point may arise during the expansion of the stent 1, as indicated by dashed lines 10, 11.
- Fig. 8 shows a stent 12 according to the invention in a likewise simplified perspective view, which, in contrast to the previously described stent 1 has a square cross section, as shown schematically in Fig. 9.
- the stent 12 according to the invention has a cross-sectional shape deviating from the circular shape, and in particular two opposite, flattened longitudinal sides 13, 14, which have enlarged contact surfaces form, as will be explained in more detail below.
- the other two opposite longitudinal sides 25 of the stent 12 are also formed corresponding flattened.
- the cross-section of the stent 12 does not have to be exactly mathematically quadratic, but the side faces may be slightly curved in cross-section and the corners may be rounded, as long as the flattened longitudinal sides 13, 14, Form support surfaces that are not only in linear contact with the inner sides 6, 7 of the vertebral body 5, but form with this flat contact areas.
- Fig. 1 the stent 12 according to the invention is used in its compressed state in the vertebral body cavity 4 of the collapsed vertebral body 5. If the stent 12 is transferred from its compressed state into the expanded state shown in FIG. 12, then the two flattened longitudinal sides 13, 14 are pressed flat against the inner sides 6, 7 of the vertebral body 5, so that when expanding the stent 12 the vertebral body transmitted force is distributed over a larger area and thus the vertebral body 5 is not loaded linear as in conventional stents. This minimizes the risk of an additional fracture of the vertebral body 5 occurring during expansion of the stent 12 and expansion of the vertebral body 5.
- a stent which has a circular cross-section in the compressed state
- the cross-sectional shape during expansion relatively early from the circular shape in a deviating from the circular cross-sectional shape, in particular with opposite, flattened Long sides, changes. This ensures that the force transferred to the vertebral body during expansion is distributed over a larger area during the entire expansion process or at least during most of the expansion process.
- the cross-sectional shape of the stent changes only shortly before or when reaching the expanded state in a shape deviating from the circular shape, so that substantially only the final support of the expanded vertebral body takes place over enlarged surfaces.
- the total contact area and thus the total area for transmitting force from the stents 12 to the vertebral body 5 is further increased, so that the risk of an additional fracture of the vertebral body 5 can be further reduced.
- the stents 12, deviating from the view of FIG. 13, in the compressed state have a circular cross-section.
- the stents 12 in the compressed state of FIG. 6 and in the expanded state shown in FIGS. 8 to 10 and 14 may be formed.
- the expansion of the stent 12 can take place via a balloon dilatation.
- the stent 12 is a self-expanding stent that is automatically transferred from its compressed state to its expanded state due to its formation from a shape memory material, such as nitinol, upon withdrawal from body temperature.
- the self-expanding stent in its manufacture in the compressed state circular cross-section and in the expanded Condition be impressed at least partially rectangular or square cross-section.
- FIGS. 15 to 18 show diagrammatic side views of differently designed stents according to the invention.
- FIG. 15 shows a side view of the stent 12 from FIG. 8, wherein, as in the following figures, only the outline of the side view is shown. Since the stent 12 of FIG. 8 has a cuboid body, the outline of the side view forms only the rectangle shown in FIG. Both the cross-sectional shape and the cross-sectional size are therefore identical for this stent over the entire length of the stent.
- FIG. 16 shows the outline of a side view of a modified stent 15.
- the main part 15 is adjoined by a conically tapered end 17, which opens into an end opening 18 of the stent 15.
- the opposite end opening 19 of the stent 15, however, has a clear width, which corresponds to the inner lumen of the stent 15 in its main part 16.
- the introducer for inserting and depositing the stent 15 can be guided through the larger end opening 19, so that after the stent has been deposited, the introducer catheter can be pulled out of the stent 15 without problems. Furthermore, bone cement can be injected into the interior of the stent 15 in a simple manner via the larger end opening 19 in order to improve the stability of the stent 15 and thus of the expanded vertebral body 5.
- the tapered end 17 of the stent with the reduced frontal opening 18 prevents the bone cement introduced into the interior of the stent 15 from escaping from the distal side of the stent 15 again.
- the tapered end 17 can for example, truncated pyramidal or frusto-conical, ie be formed with a square or rectangular cross-section, with a polygonal cross-section or with a circular cross-section. This also applies to the below-described tapered sections of the subsequent stents.
- the stent 20 shown in a side view in Fig. 17 differs from the stent 15 of Fig. 16 only in that the tapered end 17 forms not an open but a closed end of the stent 20. This completely or at least largely prevents leakage of the bone cement injected into the stent 20.
- a stent 21 according to the invention can have two tapered ends 17, 22.
- the two tapered ends 17, 22 may form different end openings 18, 19 of the stent and also have different cone angles.
- the two tapered ends 17, 22 may also be identical.
- the stent can be retracted back into the insertion catheter if necessary, for example in the case of incorrect positioning, and then repositioned.
- stents shown have in common that, at least in the expanded state, they have a cross section deviating from the circular shape and, for example, have a square cross section, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10. Deviating from the square cross section, stents according to the invention may also have, for example, cross-sectional shapes, as shown in FIGS. 19 to 21.
- Fig. 19 for example, a hexagonal cross section of a stent is shown, which in turn two opposite, flattened longitudinal sides 13, 14 are realized. The same applies to the cross-sectional shape in Fig. 20, in which the opposite, flattened longitudinal sides 13, 14 are interconnected by curved side surfaces 23, 24.
- Fig. 21 it is shown that the cross section of a stent according to the invention can also be formed as an elongated rectangle, so that, for example, as shown in Fig. 14, two juxtaposed stents 12 can be replaced by a single stent according to the invention with a larger width.
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