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7364587 High stretch, low dilation knit prosthetic device and method for making the same  
A method for providing dilation resistance to an implantable tubular graft includes the steps of (a) providing a graft having opposed open ends and a textile wall extending in a lengthwise...
7108716 Stent-graft with bioabsorbable structural support  
The invention relates to a stent-graft with a bioabsorbable structure and a permanent graft for luminal support and ‘treatment of arterial fistulas, occlusive disease, and aneurysms. The...
7105021 Implantable textile prostheses having PTFE cold drawn yarns  
The present invention provides an implantable prosthesis and more specifically, an implantable tubular textile prosthesis comprising a biocompatible fabric having inner and outer surfaces and first...
7011676 Flat knitted stent and method of making the same  
A knitted implantable stent having a hollow tubular structure having opposed open ends defining a wall portion therebetween is provided. The wall portion includes an open lattice structure of a...
7000305 Method for manufacturing a wire stent coated with a biocompatible fluoropolymer  
A method for manufacturing a stent includes heating a plurality of wire strands to impart a desired shape to the wire strands, coating each wire strand with a biocompatible polymer in an extruder...
6893457 Low profile, high stretch knit prosthetic device  
A radially expandable stent-graft endoprosthesis is provided. The graft included in the stent-graft is a knitted tubular structure circumferentially disposed and securably attached to the stent....
6551352 Method for attaching axial filaments to a self expanding stent  
Methods for attaching an axial filament to the body of a self expanding stent, the filament serving to enhance the radial self expanding force of the stent body. Also stents having enhanced radial...
RE38091 Device with a prosthesis implantable in the body of a patient  
The device comprises a prosthesis designed as a hollow body compressed against the action of restoring spring forces to a cross section reduced relative to an expanded use position, and held in...
6547820 High profile fabric graft for arteriovenous access  
A fabric graft having a high external velour profile is provided. The textile graft may be woven or knitted to form a tubular prosthesis. The high external velour profile is provided by outwardly...
6540773 Low profile, high stretch knit prosthetic device  
A radially expandable stent-graft endoprosthesis is provided. The graft included in the stent-graft is a knitted tubular structure circumferentially disposed and securably attached to the stent....
6241757 Stent for expanding body's lumen  
A stent for expanding a lumen of a body having a structural stability along the length of the stent, as well as a good expandable force. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the...
6192944 Method of forming a textile member with undulating wire  
A method of forming a textile having an undulating wire member therein. The method includes forming a wire which exhibits shape memory behavior into an undulating wire member, training the wire to...
6161399 Process for manufacturing a wire reinforced monolayer fabric stent  
A stent is made of a fabric interlaced in a knitting machine. The knitting machine receives a plurality of fabric strands and at least one wire strand from spools and knits them into a tubular...
6113627 Tubular stent consists of horizontal expansion struts and contralaterally attached diagonal-connectors  
A circumferentially connected stent in a non-expanded state with a longitudinal axis, including a plurality of expansion struts forming a first expansion column, the first expansion column...
6102941 Transmyocardial implant with coronary ingrowth  
The transmyocardial implant for establishing blood flow through the myocardium between a heart chamber and a lumen of a coronary vessel includes a hollow rigid conduit extending between the lumen...
6102938 Endoluminal prosthetic bifurcation shunt  
Methods, systems, and devices seal off the branch port of a bifurcated endoluminal prosthesis to transform the bifurcated prosthesis to a single-lumen prosthesis. These methods and devices are...
5851230 Vascular graft with a heparin-containing collagen sealant  
A heparin-collagen dispersion is provided for impregnating a vascular prosthesis with heparin and collagen. The dispersion is prepared at an alkaline pH to allow the addition of heparin without...
5733327 Stent for liberating drug  
A stent according to the present invention is adapted to be introduced into a vascular system such as blood vessels. The stent includes a stent body produced by weaving or knitting a fiber...
5732572 Textile prostheses having particular knit configuration including two-needle overlap stitch  
The present invention relates to a fabric for the construction of knitted tubular grafts for use in cardiovascular surgery and to methods of manufacturing these grafts. The fabric of the present...
5476507 Vascular prostheses  
A vascular prosthesis is disclosed which excels in expansibility and allows satisfactory attachment thereto of cells and tissues. This vascular prosthesis is obtained by air-jet entangling a mass...
5456721 Device for reinforcing a ligament transplant during reconstructive surgery  
Device for reinforcing a ligament transplant during reconstructive surgery. The transplant is inserted into a knitted sleeve formed from resorbable yarn, the mesh of which enables said sleeve to be...
5456711 Warp knitted carotid patch having finished selvedged edges  
A warp knitted vascular patch material, made in specific widths, the selvedges of the material are specially finished on the knitting machine without the introduction of additional threads to give...
5397359 Metal wire structure for endoprosthetics  
The metal wire structure for endoprosthetics is formed of a sintered hollow mesh knitting of elastic metal wires (D), said knitting being preferably manufactured in the manner of a "rete milanese"....
5197977 Drug delivery collagen-impregnated synthetic vascular graft  
A collagen impregnated vascular graft including drug materials complexed with the collagen to be released slowly from the graft following implant. The graft is a porous synthetic vascular graft...
5108424 Collagen-impregnated dacron graft  
A collagen-impregnated vascular graft includes a porous synthetic vascular graft substrate formed by knitting or weaving with at least three applications of dispersed collagen fibrils. Plasticizers...
4997440 Vascular graft with absorbable and nonabsorbable components  
The invention involves the use of absorbable or absorbable/nonabsorbable components to fabricate textile vascular grafts of all sizes and specifically for repair of the peripheral vascular system...
4870966 Bioabsorbable surgical device for treating nerve defects  
A bioabsorbable tube device for the repair of nerve defects or gaps comprising a flexible, porous, knitted or woven mesh tube. The tube device is crimped along its exterior to provide a tube which...
4857069 Artificial vessel and process for preparing the same  
An artificial vessel having a compliance and a stress-strain curve approximate to those of a vital vessel, which comprises a porous part of an elastomer having pores which communicate between the...
4205399 Synthetic absorbable surgical devices of poly(alkylene oxalates)  
Synthetic filaments composed of homopolymers and copolymers of poly(alkylene oxalates) are absorbable in animal tissue with minimal adverse tissue reaction. Polymers prepared by reacting a dialkyl...
4182339 Anastomotic device and method  
An anastomotic device and method for receiving the free ends of flexible tubing to be anastomosed, the device has a pliable sleeve with its opposite ends rolled outwardly upon themselves to form...
4164045 Artificial vascular and patch grafts  
Artificial vascular and patch grafts comprising a flexible elastic fabric substrate of predetermined shape fabricated from small diameter fiber having a tensile modulus of at least about 2×10 6 ...
4032993 Bioresorbable surgical articles  
Implantable surgical articles are provided which are at least partially bioresorbable and which consist at least partially of a copolyester of succinic acid and oxalic acid possessing receiving...
3986828 Polymer fabric compacting process  
Polyester fabric which may be in the form of a warp-knitted lock-stitched or tricot-stitched tubular construction is compacted by treatment with NO 2 either in the gaseous phase or in solution....
3945052 Synthetic vascular graft and method for manufacturing the same  
A synthetic vascular graft composed of fine denier polyester fiber forming a warp-knitted tube. The vascular graft has a porosity sufficient for optimum tissue ingrowth characteristics while at the...
3879766 Endoprosthetic bone joint device  
An endoprosthetic bone joint device of hinge form with intramedullary stems for fixation is provided with a snap-fit mechanism. One hinge component has a female bearing part of longitudinal slotted...
3878565 Vascular prosthesis with external pile surface  
A tubular textile synthetic cardio-vascular prosthesis manufactured from polyester or other synthetic fibers and provided externally with a thin resilient mat surface defined by a multiplicity of...
3862452 HYDROGEL SUBSTITUTES FOR TUBULAR SOMATIC ORGANS  
Substitute somatic organ comprising an insert formed of a tubular knitted textile material and an outer covering bonded to it. The outer covering comprises a hydrogel polymerized about the textile...
3108357 Compound absorbable prosthetic implants, fabrics and yarns therefor  
3094762 Tetrafluoroethylene resin tubing  
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