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7621932 |
Surgical punching instrument
A surgical punching instrument with a fixed handle ( 21 ) is attached to a tubular guide part ( 20 ). An actuating lever ( 23 ) is mounted on the fixed handle ( 21 ) in a pivotingly movable manner...
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7585281 |
Vacuum-actuated tissue perforation device for establishing pneumoperitoneum
A tissue perforation device and method. The device preferably includes a housing having a housing pass-through, a penetrator securely and sealably positioned so that the penetrator device passes...
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7559940 |
Surgical biting punch
A surgical punch including an upper jaw and lower jaw that are coupled at their proximal ends. The jaws have cutting edges at their distal end configured to cut in a direction from the distal ends...
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7513903 |
Organ culture in situ
A method of increasing blood supply to an ischemic area with a cultured vessel in situ, comprising: 1) selecting a narrow artery responsible to an ischemic area; 2) selecting a vein drawing blood...
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7510561 |
Apparatus and method for connecting a conduit to a hollow organ
An apparatus and method for connecting a first conduit to the heart without the need for cardiopulmonary bypass. The first conduit may then be attached to a second conduit that has a prosthetic...
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7507209 |
Method of establishing pneumoperitoneum
A tissue perforation device and method. The device preferably includes a housing having a housing pass-through, a penetrator device securely and sealably positioned so that the penetrator device...
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7470237 |
Biopsy instrument with improved needle penetration
The present invention provides a biopsy instrument with improved needle penetration for piercing dense tissue. The device may comprise a needle slidably retained in a housing. The device may...
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7419472 |
Biopsy instrument with internal specimen collection mechanism
A biopsy instrument with an internal specimen collection mechanism is provided.
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7378007 |
Combined lancet and electrochemical analyte-testing apparatus
An apparatus for detection and quantitation of an electrochemically-detectable analyte, such as glucose, in blood or interstitial fluid includes a meter unit, a lancet and an electrochemical...
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7357807 |
Integrated anastomosis tool with graft vessel attachment device and cutting device
An integrated anastomosis tool both creates an opening in a side wall of a target blood vessel and performs an anastomosis procedure to connect a graft vessel to a side of the target blood vessel...
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7340309 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the depth of percutaneous applications
Methods and apparatuses for deploying percutaneous probes. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes a housing and a percutaneous probe having a sharp end and...
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7300444 |
Surgical system and method for connecting hollow tissue structures
A system for performing anastomosis between a graft vessel and a target vessel includes a tissue effector that may be configured to deploy a user-selectable number of connectors. The system...
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7258694 |
Medical punch and surgical procedure
A medical punch includes a longitudinally dividable anvil with a reduced cross-sectional dimension facilitating insertion of the anvil into the vessel wall to achieve a clean aperture in the vessel...
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7241302 |
Anastomosis instrument and method for performing same
An aortic punch for creating an aortotomy in a wall of a luminal structure. The aortic punch includes a housing having distal and proximal ends, first and second plungers, a first return spring and...
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7235055 |
Sampling device including transponder for electronic tracking and identification
A sampling device ( 10 ) characterised by a male portion comprising a male base portion ( 12 ) and a sample removal means ( 30 ), and a female portion comprising a first female base portion ( 14 )...
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7153275 |
Device for taking a sample from a body
A device for taking a sample from a body may include a needle and a cannula for taking a sample, slides connected to springs for priming the needle and the cannula, a control button for bringing...
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7011663 |
Surgical rongeur having a removable storage member
An improved multi-bite bone cutting rongeur with an ultrathin foot plate and a disposable cutting element and storage chamber unit is disclosed. The present invention has an integrated cutting...
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6997936 |
Skin pricker blood sampling device
A skin pricker has a housing ( 1 ) for a lancet ( 5 ) which, when released from a rearward cocked position, is propelled forwards by a spring momentarily to project its tip ( 3 ). During the...
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6979339 |
Medico-surgical instruments
The rear end of a dual lumen oocyte recovery needle is sealed in a plastics hub by means of two polyurethane seals compressed between the outside of the needle and opposite ends of a bore through...
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6962592 |
Allograft implant cutting machine
The present invention is an apparatus for cutting allograft bone implants from donor bone. Die sets of standard sizes are installed in a press. Donor bone is then placed in position between the...
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6863677 |
Method and apparatus for trephinating body vessels and hollow organ walls
A system is disclosed for creating a hole in a body vessel or hollow organ. Such holes are useful in surgically preparing the hollow organ or body vessel for connection with another hollow organ,...
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6835201 |
Trocar
A trocar is disclosed which comprises a body assembly and a cannula assembly attached to the body assembly to define a bore therethrough. The disclosed trocar also includes an obturator assembly...
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6743244 |
Soft anvil apparatus for cutting anastomosis fenestra
The present invention is directed to a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in a vessel for subsequent anastomosis. The cutting apparatus includes an anvil, an anvil pull and a cutter. The...
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6719771 |
Blood sampling device
A blood sampling device has a lancet ( 2 ) captive within a housing ( 1 ), to be released from a rearward primed position by pressing a trigger ( 18 ) on the side of the housing. A spring ( 3 )...
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6702820 |
Surgical cutting instrument having concative jaw tips
A surgical instrument has a pair of opposed jaws constructed and arranged to open and close relative to one another. Each jaw has a proximal end connected to part of the surgical instrument, an...
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6699256 |
Medical grafting apparatus and methods
Instrumentation for facilitating cutting an opening in a side wall of a body conduit in a patient. A tubular structure defines a lumen and has a sharpened distal end portion configured to cut a...
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6695859 |
Apparatus and methods for anastomosis
Apparatus and methods for performing an anastomosis. More particularly, the apparatus may be used to perform a single or multiple anastomosis with the ability of maintaining fluid flow (e.g.,...
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6695849 |
Surgical rongeur
An improved multi-bite bone cutting rongeur with an ultrathin foot plate and a disposable cutting element and storage chamber unit. The present invention has an integrated cutting element and...
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6689147 |
Anastomosis punch device and method
An anastomosis punch device, and method of using same, for creating a circular hole in the aortic wall, where the device also segregates the hole from the blood flow path such that no blood is lost...
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6652552 |
Actuating handle for a surgical instrument
A handle and methods for its use are provided for actuating surgical components such as blades, clamps, punches, needles, shears, etc., primarily for use in cardiovascular or arthroscopic surgery....
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6626921 |
Externally positioned anvil apparatus for cutting anastomosis
The present invention is directed to a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in a vessel for subsequent anastomosis. The cutting apparatus includes an anvil, an anvil pull and a cutter. The...
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6592588 |
Apparatus for osteochondral autograft transplantation
Apparatus for autogenous or allograft transplantation of articular cartilage with bone from one site, such as in the knee, to another to treat chondral defects. Graft harvesters and recipient site...
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6572625 |
Hair transplant harvesting device and method for its use
The harvesting of hair for a hair transplant procedure employs a hollow drill with an imaging system which permits alignment of center of the cutting edge of the needle with the axis of the...
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6569173 |
Compression plate anastomosis apparatus
Compression plates and vascular anvils for anastomosis of structures including end-to-end and end-to-side anastomosis. Vascular anvils cooperate in the opening of the anastomosis fenestra,...
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6551334 |
Externally directed anastomosis systems and externally positioned anastomosis fenestra cutting apparatus
Anastomosis procedures and anastomosis cutting procedures are achieved with an anvil apparatus that is externally positioned through the wall of a vessel into the vessel lumen. The externally...
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6533797 |
Control grip assembly
A control handle assembly, comprising, a body; a pair of handles extending from the body; and an actuator disposed within the body, wherein the handles move in unison, and wherein movement of the...
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6482220 |
Method and apparatus for creation of drug delivery and/or stimulation pockets in myocardium
An apparatus and method for creating drug-filled pockets within muscle tissue, such as myocardium of the heart for increasing angiogenesis. More particularly, the apparatus has an excising assembly...
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6416527 |
Vessel cutting device
A catheter-based system for accessing specific body cavities percutaneously and minimizing patient trauma is provided. In the preferred embodiment, in order to create an aperture at an access site...
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6398741 |
Tissue excision and cutting apparatus and its forceps
A tissue excision and cutting apparatus used by being inserted into a trocar for cutting off a part of tissue as a sample piece for such a diagnosis in a laparoscopic surgery or the like. The...
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6387111 |
Method of using a meniscal vascular punch
A method of meniscal repair promotes the healing of avascular meniscal tears undergoing repair. At least one vascular channel is formed from the white zone to the periphery of the meniscus by...
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6364891 |
Back biting surgical instrument
A surgical instrument is provided for cutting tissue. The surgical instrument includes a shaft having proximal and distal ends, a cutter coupled to the distal end, and a handle coupled to the...
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6264668 |
Ophthalmologic instrument for producing a fistula in the sclera
An instrument for producing a fistula through a tissue wall of an eye of a patient. The instrument has a housing with a flat blade supported in the housing for penetrating through the tissue wall...
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6221089 |
Skin incision device with compression spring assembly
A device for making an incision in skin, having a housing with a slotted opening, and a triggering mechanism disposed within the housing for propelling a blade coupled thereto, through the slotted...
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6217599 |
Device and method for tendon harvesting
A device for harvesting a tendon for cruciate ligament surgery includes an elongated outer member and an inner member disposed within the outer member, such that the outer and inner members are...
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6176867 |
Multi-size reusable aortic punch
Multi-size, reusable punches as sets for use in coronary artery bypass grafting that include punch/die assemblies that may easily and quickly interchanged at the operating table under sterile...
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6106538 |
Method for forming an internal coronary bypass
An internal coronary bypass, for circumventing an obstruction in a coronary artery, having a conduit through the heart's muscle that preferably connects a left-chamber of the heart to the coronary...
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6080173 |
Tissue punching instrument
A surgical punch prevents tissue debris associated with punching a hole in a patient's tissue, such as an aorta during an anastomosis procedure, from reentering the patient's bloodstream. The punch...
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6048353 |
Trephine device for locating and cutting a cylindrical or reverse tapered aperture in flexible material
A trephine device for preparing apertures through a flexible material, such as skin of a patient, including a base plate having an upper surface and an opposed lower surface, where the upper...
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6039748 |
Disposable laparoscopic morcellator
A morcellator for removing large masses of tissues during laparoscopic procedures includes a rotationally fixed, axially movable inner tube disposed within a rotating cutting member. The cutting...
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6036710 |
Apparatus for formation of a hole in a blood vessel
An apparatus for forming a non-circular opening in tissue includes an elongate body having a first tissue engaging edge associated with a distal end portion thereof, a punch head disposed adjacent...
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