Abstract: A prosthetic repair patch has a sheet and a plurality of sutures integrated therewith and laid securely there across. The sheet, with first and second sheet surfaces, completely under covers a hernia in the abdominal tissue of a patient with the first sheet surface adjacently abutting a first surface of the tissue that faces away from a person installing the patch. The sutures are preconnected, prior to packaging and sterilization of the patch, to the sheet in a spaced apart configuration from one another and each has a longitudinal end thereof that extends from the first sheet surface. Each suture end is adapted to extend through the tissue for locally abutting the first sheet surface to the first tissue surface and to extend from an opposite second surface of the tissue for attachment with another suture end thereat for local fastening of the sheet to the tissue. The present invention also discloses a method of under covering a hernia with the repair patch.

Abstract: A prosthetic repair patch has a sheet and a plurality of retaining structures connected thereto. The sheet, with first and second sheet surfaces, completely under covers a hernia in tissue of a patient with the first sheet surface adjacently abutting a first surface of the tissue that faces away from a person installing the patch. The retaining structures are connected to the sheet in a spaced apart configuration and are configured for retaining a suture passed therethrough, each suture being initially passed from the second tissue surface through the first tissue surface, through at least one retaining structure, and back through the first tissue surface and out of the second tissue surface. Suture ends of each suture may then be drawn away from the second tissue surface to draw the first sheet surface into local and adjacent abutment with the first tissue surface and attached to one another.

Abstract: A prosthetic repair patch has a sheet and a plurality of sutures integrated there with. The sheet, with first and second sheet surfaces, completely under covers a hernia in the abdominal tissue of a patient with the first sheet surface adjacently abutting a first surface of the tissue that faces away from a person installing the patch. The sutures are connected to the sheet in a spaced apart configuration from one another and each has a longitudinal end thereof that extends from the first sheet surface. Each suture end is adapted to extend through the tissue for locally abutting the first sheet surface to the first tissue surface and to extend from an opposite second surface of the tissue for attachment with another suture end thereat for local fastening of the sheet to the tissue. The present invention also discloses a method of under covering a hernia with the repair patch.