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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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"....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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3108357 |
Compound absorbable prosthetic implants, fabrics and yarns therefor
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3094762 |
Tetrafluoroethylene resin tubing
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