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| 20090304772 | IMPLANTABLE MATERIALS HAVING ENGINEERED SURFACES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - Implantable materials having engineered surfaces and method of making same comprising geometric features on at least one surface of the material having at least one of chemical, physiochemical and electrochemical activity different than regions of the at least one surface without the features. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100154197 | COMPLIANT IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME - Implantable medical grafts fabricated of metallic or pseudometallic films of biocompatible materials having a plurality of microperforations passing through the film in a pattern that imparts fabric-like qualities to the graft or permits the geometric deformation of the graft. The implantable graft is preferably fabricated by vacuum deposition of metallic and/or pseudometallic materials into either single or multi-layered structures with the plurality of microperforations either being formed during deposition or after deposition by selective removal of sections of the deposited film. The implantable medical grafts are suitable for use as endoluminal or surgical grafts and may be used as vascular grafts, stent-grafts, skin grafts, shunts, bone grafts, surgical patches, non-vascular conduits, valvular leaflets, filters, occlusion membranes, artificial sphincters, tendons and ligaments. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100191317 | ENDOLUMINAL IMPLANTABLE STENT-GRAFTS - An implantable endoluminal device that is fabricated from materials that present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface that has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent-graft and web-stent that is made of an monolithic material deposited into a monolayer and etched into regions of structural members and web regions subtending interstitial regions between the structural members. An endoluminal graft is also provided which is made of a biocompatible metal or metal-like material. The endoluminal stent-graft is characterized by having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110190776 | INTEROSTEAL AND INTRAMEDULLARY IMPLANTS AND METHOD OF IMPLANTING SAME - The present invention relates to an expandable metal balloon that may be used for the treatment of diseased or injured bone tissues, and a method of using the same. The metal balloon is inserted into the interior space of a cancellous bone tissue, and is filled with a suitable material to provide internal structural support to the bone. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110274737 | IMPLANTABLE MATERIALS HAVING ENGINEERED SURFACES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - An implantable biocompatible material includes one or more vacuum deposited layers of biocompatible materials deposited upon a biocompatible base material. At least a top most vacuum deposited layer includes a homogeneous molecular pattern of distribution along the surface thereof and comprises a patterned array of geometric physiologically functional features. | 11-10-2011 |
