Abstract: A woven textile vascular prosthesis including a tubular trunk and at least one fork, each fork having an apex located between outgoing tubular branches with a small diameter, wherein at least a portion of a wall of the prosthesis in a zone of the apex is woven more densely than in other zones having an original weave construction.

Abstract: A sheathing has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction for restoring function of venous valves of varicose veins in the form of a planar, flexible piece of material, wherein the piece of material includes a nonwoven material.

Abstract: A surgical implant is made from biocompatible fiber material as a woven textile fabric, in particular in the form of a vascular prosthesis, the woven fabric being so configured that its permeability to blood is so low that the blood impregnates the textile fabric upon implantation and seals it off by coagulating, but does not flow through it.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stent-graft prosthesis with a toroidally expandable sleeve (34) which has at least two opening attachments (36 and 37) and is made of flexible material for internal lining of an arterial aneurysm (1) and, where appropriate, with an aortic insert (23) associated with the sleeve (34), in the form of a vascular prosthesis with expandable supporting structures (39, 40) for fixing the aortic insert (23) in the sleeve (34) in the region of the opening attachments (36 and 37) thereof. The sleeve is designed as foldable toroid. The shape of the sleeve in the unfolded state is adapted to the shape of an aneurysm.

Abstract: A vascular prosthesis includes a prosthesis wall whose outer surface has at least one reinforcing means, the surface of the prosthesis wall and the surface of the at least one reinforcer being coated, at least in part, with an antimicrobial layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antimicrobial implant with a flexible porous structure composed of a biocompatible synthetic material which comprises particles of at least one antimicrobial agent.

Abstract: The object of the invention is a nonwoven vascular prosthesis (1) with pleats (3) in the vessel wall (2). In a process for producing the pleated, nonwoven vascular prosthesis, the vessel wall is formed on a rod-shaped core (6) having a corrugated surface (7) corresponding to the pleats.

Abstract: The invention relates to a an incontinence strap (66) for treating urinary incontinence, in particular, urinary incontinence in females, that is configured such that it is flexible.

Abstract: The invention relates to a textile vascular prosthesis (1) with a circulatory pleating formed by folds (4), and with an arch-shaped longitudinal flexion (2) extending over at least a partial section and formed by asymmetric shortening gathering of the prosthesis wall by means of at least one longitudinal seam (7) extending along the partial section. The at least one longitudinal seam gathers the prosthesis wall while preserving the accordion-like structure (4) and the compacted state of the pleating (4) in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an implant with antibiotic long-term action, in particular a vascular prosthesis, with a basic structure which defines the form of the implant and which is made of substantially non-absorbable or only slowly absorbable polymer material and of a coating of an absorbable material, with a layer of metallic silver situated on the polymer material and underneath the coating.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition of at least two, in particular two, biocompatible components which can be chemically crosslinked together, in particular for gluing biological tissue, comprising at least the following components: a) aqueous solution of at least one polymer having amino groups b) aqueous solution of at least one aldehyde having at least three aldehyde groups, where the composition is free of protein. The invention further relates to a provision of the composition for use as surgical tissue glue, and to a kit consisting of two substantially separate containers which contain components of the composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a an incontinence strap (66) for treating urinary incontinence, in particular, urinary incontinence in females, that is configured such that it is flexible.

Abstract: Sheathing for reinforcing natural veins for use as surgical implants in the form of textile netting that is configured by forming a seamless, tubular, essentially pile-less, knit fabric and has loops having large, open apertures having essentially polygonal shapes is made available.

Abstract: A surgical implant is made from biocompatible fiber material as a woven textile fabric, in particular in the form of a vascular prosthesis, the woven fabric being so configured that its permeability to blood is so low that the blood impregnates the textile fabric upon implantation and seals it off by coagulating, but does not flow through it.

Abstract: A flat implant for use in surgery is described. The implant includes a flexible fabric comprising two sides and having on one side a substantially closed surface and on the other side a three-dimensional microstructure permitting a growing in of cells. The implant can be more particularly used for the treatment of wall defects in body cavities, such as abdominal wall defects.

Abstract: A strand-like implant of resorbable polymer material is substantially formed as a random copolymer of L-lactide and glycolide, which are present in a composition in a range of more than 80 mole % lactide and less than 20 mole % glycolide to 95 mole % lactide and 5 mole % glycolide, particularly in a ratio of 90:10, and has in the textile structure a tensile strength of more than 200 N/mm2.

Abstract: A flat implant for use in surgery is described. The implant includes a flexible fabric comprising two sides and having on one side a substantially closed surface and on the other side a three-dimensional microstructure permitting a growing in of cells. The implant can be more particularly used for the treatment of wall defects in body cavities, such as abdominal wall defects.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conical, textile vessel prosthesis made from textile material transformed by elastic expansion and fixing and/or by the shrinkage of shrinkable wall material, starting from a cylindrical tubular fabric, into a conical shape. The prosthesis preferably has a pleating.

Abstract: A surgical suture material of absorbable, synthetic polymer is formed from glycolide-trimethylene carbonate copolymer with a glycolide content higher than 76 wt. % and with a statistical distribution of the monomers. Within 9 to 21 days, the suture material has a complete breaking strength loss and is completely absorbed in vivo after 35 to 91 days.

Abstract: An implant at least partly comprises and at least on the infection-protected surface areas of resorbable material and contains therein an antimicrobiotic agent, the solubility of the antimicrobiotic agent being chosen in such a way that it is delivered substantially throughout the entire degradation time of the material.