Description, with step-by-step illustrations, of how the BioHealx device is deployed to repair anal fistula, as presented by colorectal surgeon Dr. Ryan Moore at the Signum Surgical lunch symposium during the ASCRS (American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons) 2026 annual meeting.
So, this is the technique, and we’ll kind of spend more time talking about this, but this is the device positioned directly onto the sphincter muscle.
You see these little flaps here that are kind of raised up so you really expose that internal sphincter muscle.
This is a guide. In this picture it’s represented in blue. It’s a suture, a VICRYL suture, as we deploy the device.
This is the screw coming out with the implant on it and then leaving behind the implant.
And as we all mentioned, just to kind of give a visual representation of treating all three segments.
Some people were asking this morning about this. So, this is the device implanted. You can’t feel it from the anal side when you’re doing the exam. I mean, you can kind of sense where it is, but you’re not really feeling the device.
Then you see it in the internal sphincter, the intersphincteric space, and the external sphincter. And that’s really the key with all this.
Absorption time varies based on the patient environment and things like that, but about 6 to 12 months.
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