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8172894 Circumferentially nested expandable device  
Expandable medical implants for maintaining support of a body lumen are disclosed. These implants comprise a circumferentially nested, diametrically expandable, moveable vascular device for...
8167810 Catheter device for treating a blockage of a vessel  
The invention relates to a catheter device for treating a blockage of a vessel, with the catheter device featuring a treatment catheter for treating the vessel blockage which is embodied as an...
8152842 Self-expanding stent  
A self-expanding stent comprising a series of zig-zag stenting rings (A, B, C, D, E, F, D1, D2) spaced along the axis and with adjacent said rings connected by connecting links (12, 14) spaced...
8146600 Apparatus and methods for treating sleep apnea  
Apparatus and methods are provided for treating sleep apnea, snoring, and the like using an implant within an oropharyngeal region adjacent an anterior longitudinal ligament. The implant includes...
8070795 Stent with a joining portion and a non-joining portion for joining a stent main wire and a strut  
A stent is provided, which joins a plurality of stent components via a strut which, even when repeatedly bent over a long period of time, resists breaking. In particular, a stent is provided having...
8071155 Medical devices and methods of making the same  
Medical devices, such as stents, and methods of making the devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes diffusing a first element into a first portion of the medical device. The...
8070797 Medical device with a porous surface for delivery of a therapeutic agent  
The present invention is generally directed to implantable medical devices for delivering therapeutic agents to the body tissue of a patient and methods for making such medical devices. In...
8062347 Implantable stents having a plurality of varying parallelogrammic cells and methods for manufacturing the same  
A stent for implantation within a body vessel is provided with a plurality of varying parallelogrammic cells. The stent is radially expandable from a compressed condition, suitable for inserting...
8057399 Anchor for an implantable sensor  
An anchor for an implantable medical device, for example, and implantable physiologic sensor, includes a proximal hub portion, an intermediate portion extending radially and distally from the hub...
8012079 Method and apparatus for long-term assisting a left ventricle to pump blood  
A method and apparatus for long-term assisting the left ventricle of a heart to pump blood is disclosed which includes at least one transluminally deliverable pump and a transluminally deliverable...
8007498 Methods and devices for treatment of bone fractures  
A method and devices for facilitating fixating and joining of bone fractures utilizing expandable devices that are positioned within the bone and across the fracture site. The stress from the...
7997266 System and method for airway manipulation  
Methods and devices are disclosed for manipulating the airway, such as to treat obstructive sleep apnea. An implant is positioned within the body with respect to the airway. The spatial orientation...
7993388 Stent with offset cell geometry  
A stent defining a longitudinal axis is disclosed. A plurality of circumferential support structures are spaced-apart along the longitudinal axis. At least some of the circumferential support...
7981149 Balloon expandable bioabsorbable stent with a single stress concentration region interconnecting adjacent struts  
An expandable, implantable medical device, such as an intraluminal stent (10) fabricated from polymeric materials, includes a plurality of elongated struts (16) in consecutive series and...
7972373 Balloon expandable bioabsorbable stent with a single stress concentration region interconnecting adjacent struts  
An expandable, implantable medical device, such as an intraluminal stent fabricated from polymeric materials, includes a plurality of elongated struts in consecutive series and alternating stress...
7951448 Material for creating multi-layered films and methods for making the same  
The present invention provides multilayered materials, such as films usable in particular in medical devices in the form of vascular grafts, biocompatible coverings, and/or inflatable bladders,...
7922756 Stent  
A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the...
7909863 Retention of exposed stent loops  
A stent graft (10) is retained on an introducer (38) by retention of an exposed stent (16) of the stent graft to the introducer with trigger wires (44). The introducer has a trigger wire catheter...
7887579 Active stent  
The present invention, in an exemplary embodiment, provides a stent, which combines many of the excellent characteristics of both silicone and metal stents while eliminating the undesirable ones....
7857842 Flat wire stent  
The present invention concerns an improved stent in which the limbs have been fabricated from a medium having a cross sectional profile in which at least one segment is flat and straight, whereby...
7850726 Endoprosthesis having struts linked by foot extensions  
The present invention relates to an endoprosthesis having a plurality of web rings coupled by connectors, which include two or more essentially parallel struts and a foot extension protruding from...
7842080 Stent with improved flexibility  
A stent comprises a plurality of connected serpentine circumferential bands. Adjacent serpentine circumferential bands are connected via a plurality of longitudinal connectors extending between...
7815962 Coated stent with evenly distributed therapeutic agent  
A stent includes a stent framework and a coating disposed on the stent framework. The coating includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The coating has a circumferential therapeutic...
7811393 Shape memory alloy articles with improved fatigue performance and methods therefor  
Articles made of shape memory alloys having improved fatigue performance and to methods of treating articles formed from shape memory alloy materials by pre-straining the articles (or desired...
7803179 Intravascular stents  
Stent designs for use in vessels, such as the carotid and coronary arteries, are disclosed. The stents consist of a plurality of radially expandable cylindrical elements generally aligned on a...
7794492 Stent and stent graft  
A stent formed in a shape of a generally tubular body having a central axis. The stent has a spring function with which the tubular body is diameter-contractible toward the central axis, and the...
7790273 Material for creating multi-layered films and methods for making the same  
The present invention provides multilayered materials, such as films usable in particular in medical devices in the form of vascular grafts, biocompatible coverings, and/or inflatable bladders,...
7771739 Implantable medical devices comprising semi-crystalline poly(ester-amide)  
The current invention relates to an implantable medical device made of semi-crystalline poly(ester amide) (PEA) polymer.
7736687 Methods of making medical devices  
Scaffold-supported metal or pseudometallic film covers suitable for use as medical devices are disclosed together with methods of fabricating the devices. Methods for making the medical devices...
7722914 Micromantled drug-eluting stent  
Pharmacologically active, easy-to-deploy, biomechanically compatible, inflatable endovascular, drug-eluting stent are formed of a primary expandable polymeric or metallic construct, intimately...
7722664 Endoluminal stent having a matched stiffness region and/or a stiffness gradient  
A modular elongated stent having an overlap region where two modular components fit together, the overlap region being relatively stiff as compared to another more flexible region of the stent when...
7722661 Stent  
A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the...
7695507 Neurovascular stent and method  
A stent designed for catheter delivery to a target neurovascular site via a tortuous path, in a contracted state, and deployment at the target site, in an expanded state, is disclosed. The stent...
7682648 Methods for forming polymeric coatings on stents  
A method is provided for forming a polymeric coating on a stent. The method can comprise applying a prepolymer or a combination of prepolymers to the stent and initiating polymerization to form a...
7651525 Intraluminal stent assembly and method of deploying the same  
Intraluminal stent assemblies and methods of deploying the same. The assemblies include a catheter including at least one lumen formed therein. At least one inflatable member is disposed on the...
7647687 Method of manufacturing a stent  
A stent, an intermediate article in the manufacture of a stent, and a method of forming a stent from a workpiece are disclosed. A portion of the wall thickness of a workpiece may be removed,...
7632303 Variable stiffness medical devices  
A medical device has a structure differentiated in terms of its stiffness or elasticity. Such stiffness differentiation is achieved through the use of superelastic or shape-memory materials which...
7611887 Micro-muscle in biological medium  
The invention concerns a micro-muscle designed to be immersed in a biological liquid, comprising a deformable chamber whereof one portion at least consists of a semipermeable membrane, said chamber...
7582108 Tubular implant  
The invention relates to a tubular implant, in particular a stent, in the form of a round braid composed of threads of biocompatible material extending in oppositely directed helices and crossing...
7537606 Branch stent graft deployment and method  
A deployment system for introducing stent grafts which have a side arm or into which a side arm can be deployed. For instance the stent graft can be deployed into the thoracic arch of a patient....
7487579 Methods of making medical devices  
A method of manufacturing a medical device, such as an endoprosthesis, includes reducing the size of the medical device, and vibrating the device. In embodiments, the device is vibrated...
7473272 Recapturable stent with minimum crossing profile  
A self-expanding stent includes a plurality of segments having an alternating repeating pattern; each of the segments having connected crowns and unconnected crowns, wherein the unconnected crowns...
7462190 Stent matrix  
To improve radiopacity in a stent, and to reduce trauma while improving stent anchoring, imported beads are mounted To stent precursor matrices. Specially attractive is to provide a ring of such...
7451765 Intra-bronchial apparatus for aspiration and insufflation of lung regions distal to placement or cross communication and deployment and placement system therefor  
An anchored intra-bronchial apparatus for placement and deployment into selected airways and a method for using the same. When deployed, the apparatus creates a restriction of air flow to one or...
7416559 Micromantled drug-eluting stent  
Pharmacologically active, easy-to-deploy, biomechanically compatible, inflatable endovascular, drug-eluting stent are formed of a primary expandable polymeric or metallic construct, intimately...
7374570 Polymer compositions for intraluminal stent  
A polymer composition for use in forming a stent is described. The composition includes a monomer of an aliphatic ester of acrylic acid which has a glass transition temperature less than 25° C. ...
7331988 Stent for vessel  
A stent for a vessel implanted in the vessel of the living body including a main body portion of the stent formed into a tube by a yarn formed of a biodegradable polymer exhibiting a shape memory...
7309351 Expandable stent with markers and stent delivery system  
An expandable stent and delivery system therefor is provided for treating vascular diseases such as partially occluded blood vessels and aneurysms. The delivery system includes proximal,...
7268134 Medical devices employing triazine compounds and compositions thereof  
The present invention relates to methods and compositions comprising compounds that treat pathophysiological conditions arising from inflammatory responses. In particular, the present invention is...
7195648 Intravascular stent device  
Disclosed is a very small diameter intravascular stent, or aneurysm cover, which may be used to occlude, or partially occlude, an aneurysm in the human brain. The stent is comprised of a...
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