WO2000045737A1 - Urethral, biliary or esophagal tubular endoprosthesis - Google Patents
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- WO2000045737A1 WO2000045737A1 PCT/IT2000/000032 IT0000032W WO0045737A1 WO 2000045737 A1 WO2000045737 A1 WO 2000045737A1 IT 0000032 W IT0000032 W IT 0000032W WO 0045737 A1 WO0045737 A1 WO 0045737A1
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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
- A61F2/82—Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/86—Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements; Stents in the form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
- A61F2/90—Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements; Stents in the form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
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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
- A61F2/82—Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/848—Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents having means for fixation to the vessel wall, e.g. barbs
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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
- A61F2/04—Hollow or tubular parts of organs, e.g. bladders, tracheae, bronchi or bile ducts
- A61F2/06—Blood vessels
- A61F2/07—Stent-grafts
- A61F2002/075—Stent-grafts the stent being loosely attached to the graft material, e.g. by stitching
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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
- A61F2220/00—Fixations or connections for prostheses classified in groups A61F2/00 - A61F2/26 or A61F2/82 or A61F9/00 or A61F11/00 or subgroups thereof
- A61F2220/0008—Fixation appliances for connecting prostheses to the body
- A61F2220/0016—Fixation appliances for connecting prostheses to the body with sharp anchoring protrusions, e.g. barbs, pins, spikes
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- the present invention relates to a tubular endoprosthesis, commonly known with the English name stent, and particularly to an endoprosthesis which can be used for treating stenosis or an occlusion of urethral ducts or other non- sanguineous structures, for example those of the biliary ducts or of the esophagus.
- the present invention relates to the use of said endoprosthesis.
- the ureter is known to be a muscle-membranous duct, provided with its own peristalsis and internally covered with a particular epithelium, called urothelium, which has the function of conveying to the bladder the urine excreted by the kidney.
- the stenosis or the total occlusion of the ureter leads to occlusive nephropathy which brings to a loss of the renal function if it is not treated in time.
- the occlusion is bilateral, i.e. it occurs at both ureters, a renal failure, which is incompatible with the patient survival, takes place if no operation for substituting the renal function is effected, for instance extra-corporeal dialysis or a kidney transplantation.
- the cause of the ureter occlusion is determined by advanced neoplastic processes, such as relapses of tumors of the colon or rectum, of the prostate or of the bladder, gynecologic tumors (uterus or ovaries), or periaortic lymphadenopathies, i.e. it is due to clinic situations wherein the basic disease cannot be radically treated anymore, the patient cannot obviously undergo a transplantation and is universally excluded from any program of extra-corporeal dialysis.
- advanced neoplastic processes such as relapses of tumors of the colon or rectum, of the prostate or of the bladder, gynecologic tumors (uterus or ovaries), or periaortic lymphadenopathies, i.e. it is due to clinic situations wherein the basic disease cannot be radically treated anymore, the patient cannot obviously undergo a transplantation and is universally excluded from any program of extra-corporeal dialysis.
- the solution of the occlusive problem can improve the life quality of the patient and/or lengthen his survival, so that a few so-called endourologic procedures are practiced, which allow the occlusive problem to be solved with a palliative and without surgical access (open surgery).
- the urologist positions a plastic pipe, for instance made with polyurethane or silicone and generally known with the English name plastic stent, through the urethral occlusion by techniques which are derived from the intervention radiology.
- tubular endoprosthesis commonly known with the English name metal stent, which comprise a tubular metal net made with stainless steel or nitinol, a particular elastic nickel-titanium alloy.
- metal stent which comprise a tubular metal net made with stainless steel or nitinol, a particular elastic nickel-titanium alloy.
- These prostheses which are self-expansible or expansible by means of a ball catheter, have been found to be useful in the treatment of stenosis and occlusions.
- the advantage of this kind of prosthesis consist in their considerable compressibility in the insertion into an even small access hole, thereby obtaining in any case through the stenosis an end lumen which is greater than that obtainable by plastic endoprosthesis.
- the endoprosthesis metal net is passed through by the hyperplastic reaction of the urothelium that actively proliferates in response to the extension.
- the urothelium response can often be excessive, thus determining the endoprosthesis occlusion. From published researches, only the 67% of 95 ureters provided with this endoprosthesis have been found to be accessible for a significant period of time.
- the endoprosthesis occlusion can also occur by proliferation through the metal net meshes of tumor tissue or inflammatory granulation tissue or by extension of the tumor to the ureter segments which are not provided with the endoprosthesis.
- the reaction of the urothelium through the endoprosthesis is considered to be a positive phenomenon because at the end it is incorporated and fixed to the urothelium, without deposit and migration risks.
- a third kind of tubular endoprostheses is known, commonly called with the English name stent-graft, wherein the metal net is still self-expansible or expansible with a ball, and is externally or sometimes internally covered by a biocompatible fabric, for instance one made with polyester or polyurethane.
- the stent-grafts born for applications in blood vessel, for example for the treatment of aneurysms or arterovenous fistulae, have never been used in the urethral ducts, although the covering of the tubular metal net with the biocompatible fabric is capable of impeding the passage of the urothelium, of the tumor tissue or of the granulation tissue through said net, thus providing for a remedy for the drawbacks of the purely metal endoprosthesis.
- Object of the present invention is therefore to provide an endoprosthesis which is free from said drawbacks, that is an endoprosthesis which remains easily in its position and which cannot be obstructed.
- the endoprosthesis whose main features are specified in the first claim and other features are specified in the following claims. Thanks to the loops which it is provided with, the endoprosthesis according to the present invention remains stably positioned, because the internal walls of the duct wherein it is placed are capable of anchoring themselves stably by going through and incorporating said loops, thus avoiding possible migrations which may damage the patient. Further, said loops are obtained by suitably bending some portions of the tubular net meshes, with following advantageous economicity in the manufacture and simplicity in use.
- Another advantage of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention consists in the particular shapes that the meshes of the tubular net can take depending on the kind of required application, by obtaining anyway a plurality of loops for the fastening to the internal walls of the patient's ducts.
- a further advantage of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention is that, according to the physical features of the metallic material which the tubular net is made with, the shape and the arrangement of the loops are permanently and perfectly correct even after the endoprosthesis compression, which is necessary for the installation thereof.
- FIG. 1 shows a front view of a first embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention
- figure 2 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 1;
- figure 3 shows a partial view of the metal wire used for the tubular net of the endoprosthesis of figure 1 ;
- FIG. 4 shows a front view of a second embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention
- figure 5 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 4;
- FIG. 6 shows a front view of a third embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention.
- - figure 7 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 6
- - figure 8 shows a front view of a fourth embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention:
- - figure 9 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 8;
- FIG. 10 shows a front view of a fifth embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention.
- - figure 11 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 10
- - figure 12 shows a partial view of the metal wire used for the tubular net of the endoprosthesis of figure 10;
- FIG. 13 shows a front view of a sixth embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention.
- - figure 14 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 13
- - figure 15 shows a partial view of the metal wire used for the tubular net of the endoprosthesis of figure 13;
- figure 16 shows a partial side view of the endoprosthesis of figure 1 , in the condition of compression into a tubular container.
- the first embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention comprises in a known way at least one cylindrical tube 1 made with a biocompatible fabric, particularly with a fabric in a synthetic material having low porosity, having a diameter, in the extended condition, comprised between 5 and 10 mm.
- a tubular net 2 is fastened, having substantially the same diameter, which is preferably made with a nickel-titanium alloy known with the name nitinol.
- this particular alloy is characterized by high elasticity as well as by the so-called “shape-memory” which enables the structure made with this alloy to take again a predetermined shape depending on the temperature whereat said structure was manufactured, for instance 37° C, corresponding to human body temperature.
- tubular net 1 In order to favor adhesion to the internal walls of the duct wherein the endoprosthesis is inserted, some portions of the meshes of tubular net 2 are suitably bent outwards, so that they form a multiplicity of loops 3 wherein the epithelium of said duct, particularly the ureter epithelium, can get inserted.
- loops 3 preferably protrude of at least 1 mm out of fabric tube 1.
- tubular net 1 can be seen to be preferably obtained by zigzag bending a single metal wire so as to form a substantially triangular wave having alternated crests and valleys of two different heights.
- the upper and lower profile of said triangular wave are provided with a whole periodical height increase, for instance every 24 crests, so that said wire can be easily winded around fabric tube 1 by following a helicoidal profile, so that tubular net 2 is obtained.
- crests 4 and valleys 5 which are arranged along the external profiles of the triangular wave are joined, for instance by microscopic sutures, to valleys 6 and crests 7 respectively of the adjacent portions included in a wave period, as well as possibly fastened to fabric tube 1 , again with said sutures.
- the points of crests 8 and valleys 9 included between the external wave profiles are bent outwards, so that a multiplicity of loops 3 having triangular shape is formed when the metal wire is winded around fabric tube 1.
- the second embodiment of the endoprosthesis according to the present invention comprises again one tubular net 2 fastened outside one fabric tube 1.
- tubular net 2 is preferably made with a single metal wire which is zigzag bent so as to form a substantially triangular wave, which is though provided with the crests and the valleys arranged only along the lower profile and the upper profile of the wave.
- loops 3 are obtained by bending outwards only the points of the crests of a portion comprised in a wave period and the corresponding points of the valleys of the adjacent wave portion, which are reciprocally fixed, again with microscopical sutures, at a certain distance from the fabric tube 2.
- tubular net 2 can be seen to be again formed of a single metal wire zigzag bent so as to form a substantially triangular wave, but in this case loops 3 are obtained by bending outwards, with the shape of a triangle, a portion of the wire segments included between one crest and one valley.
- tubular net 2 is arranged inside fabric tube 1 , while loops 3 protrude outwards crossing a multiplicity of through holes made in the tube itself.
- tubular net 2 is again obtained by zigzag bending a single metal wire so as to form a substantially triangular wave, which is though provided with alternated crests and valleys having the same height.
- the points of valleys 5 are bent outwards about by half in the direction of crests 4, so that they are arranged as in the dotted lines 10 of figure 12.
- tubular net 2 is obtained by zigzag bending a single metal wire with alternated crests and valleys having the same heights, as in the fifth embodiment.
- the endoprosthesis according to the present invention is compressed as in the figure and arranged in a known way into a suitable tubular container 1 1 , which has the function of bringing the endoprosthesis in the desired position. Once in position, the endoprosthesis is taken out from the tubular container, thus being free to expand inside the duct, possibly with the help of a ball catether, and taking the former shape with the loops protruding outwards.
- crests 4 are fastened to valleys 5 not through microscopic sutures, but by means of weldings with supply of metallic material preferably equal to that of the whole tubular net 2. for example the same nitinol.
- embodiments of the present invention can comprise more than one biocompatible fabric tubes and/or tubular nets, for instance a external tubular net for anchorage and an internal tubular net supporting the fabric tube.
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EP00905261A EP1158932A1 (en) | 1999-02-05 | 2000-02-03 | Urethral, biliary or esophagal tubular endoprosthesis |
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