Abstract: An opening and closing unit includes a body that has a first hollow part penetrating through both ends thereof and an opening part communicating the first hollow part with an outside, and an opening and closing part that is inserted into the first hollow part to selectively open and close the opening part, has second hollow part formed therein, and has a through hole communicating with the second hollow part on one side thereof.

Abstract: Provided is an endoscope including a separable probe. The endoscope includes a handle unit and a probe unit detachably mounted on the handle unit. The handle unit includes a first connector reciprocally movable by an adjustment knob. The probe unit includes a probe deformable in response to movement of a wire and a second connector coupled to an end of the wires and detachably coupled to the first connector.

Abstract: A detachable endoscope having a buffer function includes: an operation part for operating the front end of an insertion part having an illuminating photographing part to be bent and a detachable unit for detachably coupling the insertion part and the operation part, wherein the detachable unit includes: a first detachable module connected to the respective other ends of first, second, third, and fourth operation wires having the respective one ends connected to the front end inside the insertion part and provided on the rear end of the insertion part, and a second detachable module connected to first, second, third, and fourth connection wires of a direction conversion part for converting a rotational motion into a linear motion in the operation part and provided on the front end of the operation part.

Abstract: A detachable endoscope includes: an operation part for operating the front end of an insertion part having a lighting photographing part to be bent and a detachable unit for detachably coupling the operation part and the insertion part, wherein the detachable unit includes: a first detachable module connected to first, second, third, and fourth operation wires arranged parallel to each other so that the respective one ends are connected to the front end inside the insertion part and provided on the rear end of the insertion part, a second detachable module connected to first, second, third, and fourth connection wires of a direction conversion part for converting a rotational motion into a linear motion in the operation part and provided on the front end of the operation part, and a bending control part for adjusting an angle at which the front end of the insertion part is bent and displaced vertically or horizontally.

Abstract: A detachable endoscope includes an insertion unit including an illuminating and image pickup unit, an operation unit configured to bendingly operate a front end of the insertion unit, and a detachable unit configured to detachably couple the insertion unit and the operation unit to each other, wherein the detachable unit includes: a first detachable module disposed at the insertion unit; and a second detachable module disposed at the operation unit, wherein the first detachable module includes: a first module main body disposed within a rear end of the insertion unit and having first, second, third and fourth rectilinear guide through-bores penetratingly formed longitudinally therein, and a central opening penetratingly formed at a center of the main body in a thickness direction of the main body.

Abstract: A detachable endoscope includes an insertion unit including an illuminating and image pickup unit, an operation unit configured to bendingly operate a front end of the insertion unit, and a detachable unit configured to detachably couple the insertion unit and the operation unit to each other, wherein the detachable unit comprises: a first detachable module disposed at the insertion unit in such a manner as to be connected to respective one ends of first and second operating wire and third and fourth operating wires juxtaposedly arranged in the insertion unit; and a second detachable module disposed at the operation unit in such a manner as to be connected to respective both ends of upper and lower chains wound around upper and lower sprockets of the operation unit.

Abstract: Provided are a cartridge, and a treatment device for an endoscope comprising same. The present invention includes a straight guide path in which a clip connector and a moving tube separation bar are arranged in a straight line, and arranges a front moving tube, which is inserted in and arranged on the tip of a clip facing the moving tube separation bar and temporarily restrains a pair of forceps in a retracted state, and arranges a rear moving tube, which is assembled on the outer surface of the clip connector, so as to be slidably movable along the straight guide path toward the moving tube separation bar, wherein the clip is restrained in a retracted state inside an insertion tube entering internally along the straight guide path.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stent delivery system. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to minimize the current flow distance in the in-body by integrally conducting two poles to the electrocautery tip, thus enhancing the treatment stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stent that uses a shape memory alloy wire, the stent being an expansion device installed on a part of a body lumen, which is constricted, or which has been constricted, so as to widen the passage of the lumen in response to the lesion part. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a stent using a shape memory alloy wire such that the stent maintains a high degree of conformability in a bent portion of a body lumen in which the same is inserted while substantially improving rigidness and durability against continuously applied fatigue, a stent manufactured thereby, and a jig for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A stent with an improved anti-slip function. The stent includes: a cylindrical stent including a plurality of openings formed by weaving wires, and a plurality of peaks, the cylindrical stent being subjected to heat treatment, wherein the cylindrical stent has a PTFE-first artificial blood vessel layer being in entire contact with an inner surface thereof, and a plurality of PTFE-second artificial blood vessel layers being in partial contact with an outer surface thereof, and the first and second artificial blood vessel layers are heat-fused together to encompass the cylindrical stent, thereby forming a plurality of first sections having a plurality of openings obstructed and a plurality of seconds sections having the plurality of openings remaining unobstructed, wherein the first sections are inserted into a lesion while pressing against the lesion, thereby being caught in the lesion, and the second sections are caught in the lesion meshed with the openings.

Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve using a pericardium is disclosed where: three hetero-biological tissue slices, which are extracted in a quadrangular shape from a bovine pericardium or a porcine pericardium, are prepared; each hetero-biological tissue slice is folded so as to form an inner tissue slice inside and an outer tissue slice outside, the outer tissue slice being longer than the inner tissue slice; each of the inner tissue slice and outer tissue slice is coupled by sewing in a semicircular shape with a first coupling thread such that each inner tissue slice forms a pulmonic valve slice inside the first coupling thread and a fixing slice outside the first coupling thread such that each hetero-biological tissue slice is formed in a cylindrical shape by allowing each slice to be adjacent to each other. The disclosed prosthetic heart valve has increased durability and prevents reverse blood flow.

Abstract: An apparatus for a transluminal procedure includes: a case composed of a front case part formed in the shape of a pipe and having a locking groove at a rear end, a central case part combined with the front case part and having a button hole at a rear end, and a rear case part combined with the central case part and having a through-hole formed ahead of a button groove coming in contact with the button hole at a center; a locking member having a button and a locking end; an operation member formed in the shape of a pipe and moving up and down in the case; an inner wire in live operation member and locked to the case; and an outer tube fitted on the inner wire and fixed ahead of the operation member.

Abstract: A combined cauterization and stent operation device for moving a stent to a lesion of a tubular tissue through a pipe member and performing a stent operation is provided that includes a bipolar electrode for cauterization configured to be disposed at an operation end of the pipe member to cauterize the lesion, and a high frequency generator configured to be connected to the bipolar electrode for cauterization to allow the bipolar electrode for cauterization to radiate a high frequency current.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for detecting a position of an electrode inserted into a human body that predict a path through a position sensor in a handle part before the electrode is inserted into the human body and display the path. The device for detecting the position of an electrode inserted into a human body according to the present invention includes: a position signal generator generating a position signal; an electrode needle having an electrode-side position sensor that is provided in an interior of a lance needle thereof and receives the position signal to generate first position information; and a handle connected to the electrode needle and having a handle-side position sensor that is included therein and receives the position signal to generate second position information.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stent for connecting adjacent tissues of the organs of a patient. The stent includes a hollow cylindrical body which is formed by weaving a superelastic shape-memory alloy wire in an overlapping manner such that rhombic openings are formed, and wing parts which are provided by expanding respective opposite ends of the hollow cylindrical body outwards and turning the opposite ends inside out on bent portions. The wing parts face each other so that the wing parts are tensed in a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical body. Thereby, the wing parts can elastically move inwards or outwards with respect to the longitudinal direction to automatically adjust a distance between the wing parts in response to the distance between the adjacent tissues of the organs or thicknesses of walls of the organs, so that the wing parts are put into close contact with the adjacent tissues.

Abstract: A monorail guides a guide wire introduced into an outer tube in a catheter for stent surgery. The catheter includes the outer tube having an outer hole, an inner tube installed in the outer tube, and a guide wire inserted into the outer hole and the inner tube and protruding outwards from a front end of the inner tube so that the outer tube and the inner tube move along the guide wire so as to be guide a stent. The monorail includes a separation guide which is inserted into and fixed in the outer tube and configured such that the guide wire that is inserted into the outer hole is spaced apart from the inner tube without making contact with the inner tube.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a stent having a superior bending characteristic, in which a basic jig is employed to weave wires by alternating an obtuse angle and an acute angle so as to repetitively form starry cells in left and right portions and upper and lower portions of the stent, and in which the wires intersecting each other in the starry cells are allowed to freely move to provide the superior bending characteristic caused by flexibility in both the diametrical direction and lengthwise direction thereof, and the stent manufactured thereby. Thus, the stent can have a flexible bending characteristic and is prevented from being folded even when sharply bent after being coated.

Abstract: Provided is a catheter operating structure in which a medical device such as a stent is rotated to move forward or backward without being repeatedly pushed or pulled when inserted into the lumen of a human body, so that a surgical position can be precisely adjusted by the forward or backward movement. A rotary member includes a spiral shaft formed on a handle so as to be inserted into a tubular body. A movable member includes a female spiral end that is formed at one end thereof and is spirally coupled with the spiral shaft. An injection member moving member moves together with the movable member. When the spiral shaft is rotated by rotation of the handle with the spiral shaft spirally coupled to the female spiral end, the movable member moves forward or backward without being rotated due to the injection member moving member.

Abstract: A high-frequency treatment device includes a tubular body having a front end portion and a rear end portion; an operating handle having a high-frequency port and a main push rod extending through the body, the operating handle slidably fitted to the body; a front tube having a rear end portion connected to the front end portion of the body; an auxiliary push rod rotatably connected to the main push rod, the auxiliary push rod extending into the front tube; a wire fixed to the auxiliary push rod, the wire extending through the front tube; a rotary knob rotatably attached to the body, the rotary knob configured to rotate together with the auxiliary push rod and the wire; and an arc-shaped knife fixed to the wire and connected to the high-frequency port of the operating handle via the wire, the auxiliary push rod and the main push rod.

Abstract: Provided is a combinable electrode needle base structure in which a base to which electrode needles are coupled can be used in a combined or separated state to use the electrode needles according to the size and location of a lesion. In the combinable electrode needle structure, electrode needles are connected to the front side of an electrode needle base, and receive RF waves from RF (radio frequency) generator. The electrode needle base is divided into dividable bases to which the electrode needles are respectively coupled. When a lesion to be cauterized is large or cauterization should be concentrated, the dividable bases are combined and then used, and when a lesion is small or lesions are scattered, the dividable bases may be separated and then used.