Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to inhibit and prevent the formation of adhesions, i.e., bonds between a wound and its surrounding tissues or between organs that are originally separated. The anti-adhesion material of the present invention is characterized in that at least a part of the anti-adhesion material is made of a non-biodegradable material and a contact angle of a surface to water is less than 7 degrees or more than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, has two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. When a medical material formed of a fabric or a film is sutured or knotted with the suture and then the suture site is heated at such a temperature not allowing the high-melting point component but the low-melting point component alone to melt, the sutured site is fused and fixed. Thus, a knot or a seam, which sustains the fiber shape and strength and never becomes loose, can be formed.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, has two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. When a medical material formed of a fabric or a film is sutured or knotted with the suture and then the suture site is heated at such a temperature not allowing the high-melting point component but the low-melting point component alone to melt, the sutured site is fused and fixed. Thus, a knot or a seam, which sustains the fiber shape and strength and never becomes loose, can be formed.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, has two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. When a medical material formed of a fabric or a film is sutured or knotted with the suture and then the suture site is heated at such a temperature not allowing the high-melting point component but the low-melting point component alone to melt, the sutured site is fused and fixed. Thus, a knot or a seam, which sustains the fiber shape and strength and never becomes loose, can be formed.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, has two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. When a medical material formed of a fabric or a film is sutured or knotted with the suture and then the suture site is heated at such a temperature not allowing the high-melting point component but the low-melting point component alone to melt, the sutured site is fused and fixed. Thus, a knot or a seam, which sustains the fiber shape and strength and never becomes loose, can be formed.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, has two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. When a medical material formed of a fabric or a film is sutured or knotted with the suture and then the suture site is heated at such a temperature not allowing the high-melting point component but the low-melting point component alone to melt, the sutured site is fused and fixed. Thus, a knot or a seam, which sustains the fiber shape and strength and never becomes loose, can be formed.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, has two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. When a medical material formed of a fabric or a film is sutured or knotted with the suture and then the suture site is heated at such a temperature not allowing the high-melting point component but the low-melting point component alone to melt, the sutured site is fused and fixed. Thus, a knot or a seam, which sustains the fiber shape and strength and never becomes loose, can be formed.

Abstract: A process for producing a water-insoluble shaped material, including a step of treating a raw material shaped material containing a water-soluble salt of a polyanionic polysaccharide with a treatment liquid containing an acid anhydride to insolubilize the raw material shaped material in water, and the process makes it possible to simply produce a water-insoluble shaped material in which intrinsic characteristics of the polyanionic polysaccharide being a raw material are retained, which has a high safety in that a chemical crosslinking agent is not required, and which is useful as a medical material, a food material, a cosmetic material, and the like.

Abstract: A process for producing a water-insoluble shaped material, including a step of treating a raw material shaped material containing a water-soluble salt of a polyanionic polysaccharide with a treatment liquid containing an acid anhydride to insolubilize the raw material shaped material in water, and the process makes it possible to simply produce a water-insoluble shaped material in which intrinsic characteristics of the polyanionic polysaccharide being a raw material are retained, which has a high safety in that a chemical crosslinking agent is not required, and which is useful as a medical material, a food material, a cosmetic material, and the like.

Abstract: There is provided a medical material that retains the properties which are inherent in a polyanionic polysaccharide being a raw material, that has a high level of safety because there is no need to use a chemical crosslinking agent during production, and that has a moderate strength with which a suture and the like can be conducted. The medical material is provided with a reinforcement material and a film section penetrating at least a portion of the reinforcement material to be integrated with the reinforcement material.

Abstract: There is provided a medical/cosmetic material that retains the properties which are inherent in a polyanionic polysaccharide being a raw material, that has a high level of safety because there is no need to use a chemical crosslinking agent during production, and that makes it possible to place a powder of a water-insoluble polyanionic polysaccharide at an affected area uniformly. The medical/cosmetic material includes a base and a powder dispersed in the base, in which the base contains a water-soluble salt of a first polyanionic polysaccharide, and the powder is formed by water-insolubilizing a powder of a water-soluble salt of a second polyanionic polysaccharide with a treatment liquid containing an acid anhydride.

Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a medical, material that retains the properties which are inherent in a polyanionic polysaccharide being a raw material, that has a high level of safety because there is no need to use a chemical crosslinking agent, and that has moderate strength and flexibility. The present invention is a process for producing a medical material, the process including a step of dispersing a powder or a granular product of a first polyanionic polysaccharide, the first polyanionic polysaccharide water-insolubilized with a treatment liquid containing a first acid anhydride, in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble salt of a second polyanionic polysaccharide, thereby obtaining a dispersion liquid, a step of drying the dispersion liquid obtained, thereby obtaining a dried film, and a step of water-insolubilizing the dried film obtained with a treatment liquid containing a second acid anhydride, thereby obtaining the medical material.

Abstract: A process for producing a water-insoluble shaped material, including a step of treating a raw material shaped material containing a water-soluble salt of a polyanionic polysaccharide with a treatment liquid containing an acid anhydride to insolubilize the raw material shaped material in water, and the process makes it possible to simply produce a water-insoluble shaped material in which intrinsic characteristics of the polyanionic polysaccharide being a raw material are retained, which has a high safety in that a chemical crosslinking agent is not required, and which is useful as a medical material, a food material, a cosmetic material, and the like.

Abstract: Provided is a stent graft that has superior prevention of endoleakage due to being resistant to creasing, and has superior prevention of graft migration as a result of promoting cell infiltration into gaps among microfibers in a dispersed state and forming an integrated structure with the cells in the landing zone of the stent. The stent graft according to the present invention is a stent graft comprising a stent graft fabric that has microfiber bundles consisting essentially of microfilaments having a filament linear density of 0.5 dtex or less, and said microfiber bundles having a total linear density of 10 to 60 dtex/120 to 3000 filaments, for the warp and/or weft, and in which the porosity of the microfiber bundles is 30% to 95%, wherein said stent graft has said stent graft fabric being located in at least 1 cm range from the central end.

Abstract: A suture to be used in producing a medical instrument provided with a sutured site such as a stent graft, an artificial blood vessel or an artificial heart valve, namely, a suture for sewing a medical instrument. The suture comprises two components, i.e., a high melting-point component and a low-melting point component, the difference between the melting points of components being 30° C. or more and the low-melting point component is exposed on the suture surface entirely along the length direction. The suture is, for example, a multifilament yarn comprising a combination of a high melting-point filament (3) with a low-melting point filament (4) shown in FIG. 2 or a composite filament comprising the high melting-point component and the low-melting point component, or a yarn wherein the high melting-point component is coated with the low-melting point component.

Abstract: A medical material for in vivo implantation use, characterized in that a polyethylene terephthalate ultrafine fiber is provided in at least a part of the medical material, wherein the polyethylene terephthalate ultrafine fiber is produced by spinning a polyethylene terephthalate chip, which is produced using germanium or titanium oxide as a catalyst, by a direct spinning method and then stretching the spun product and has a single fiber fineness of 0.8 dtex or less.

Abstract: To provide a filling material for a bone defect part, which reduces pain and any sense of discomfort and also promotes short-term bone repair. Provided is a filling material for a bone defect part, wherein the filling material is filled in a bone defect part formed between fracture sites in living bone and applies to the fracture site a pressing force in the direction in which the living bone extends from the defect part. Also provided is a filling material for a bone defect part where the filling material is laid in a predetermined length across the bone defect part and continuously applies the pressing force to the fracture site.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesion preventing medical material including a bioresorbable base material and a polyhydric alcohol or aqueous polyhydric alcohol solution, which contains the polyhydric alcohol, held in the bioresorbable base material. The bioresorbable base material includes a bioresorbable material, and has a swelling degree of 200 to 3,000 mass % and a water elution rate of not higher than 10 mass %. After immersed for 3 hours in water of 25° C. in an amount at least 50 times a total mass of the aqueous polyhydric alcohol solution or aqueous polyhydric alcohol solution and the bioresorbable base material, the polyhydric alcohol remains in an amount of not greater than 30 mass % of that of the polyhydric alcohol before the immersion.

Abstract: A medical material for in vivo implantation contains a bioabsorbable material containing a softening agent and/or a moisturizing agent and a non-bioabsorbable porous base material, in which the content of a softening agent and/or a moisturizing agent is controlled less than 20 wt %; a method for controlling this content; and a method for producing a medical material for in vivo implantation are provided.

Abstract: A medical material for in vivo implantation contains a bioabsorbable material containing a softening agent and/or a moisturizing agent and a non-bioabsorbable porous base material, in which the content of a softening agent and/or a moisturizing agent is controlled less than 20 wt %; a method for controlling this content; and a method for producing a medical material for in vivo implantation are provided.