Abstract: A retractor device for breast reconstruction surgery which entails the effective exposure and visibility of the breast pocket and, at the same time, does not compromise the integrity of the subcutaneous flap, resulting in a positive outcome of the breast reconstruction procedure generally, but not exclusively, performed using a prepectoral (or sub-cutaneous) acellular biological matrix.

Abstract: Medical device for breast reconstruction for containing or integrating a breast implant, the device being designed for placement between the skin and the pectoralis major muscle and is configured to be sutured to the pectoralis major muscle. The device includes a container body having a half shell and a flat appendage joined continuously to a portion of the base of the half shell.

Abstract: This application concerns a retractor device for breast reconstruction surgery. Specifically, the present patent application relates to a retractor type medical device which entails the effective exposure and visibility of the breast pocket and, at the same time, does not compromise the integrity of the subcutaneous flap, resulting in a positive outcome of the breast reconstruction procedure generally, but not exclusively, performed using a prepectoral (or sub-cutaneous) acellular biological matrix.

Abstract: A procedure for manufacturing an undershirt provided with a trunk, two sleeves, and a collar, includes providing a circular knitting machine using seamless technology; constructing a first tubular fabric element using said machine, where said first tubular element comprises a front side, a rear side, an upper edge, and a lower edge; drawing cutting lines on said first tubular element, during construction; cutting said first tubular element along said cutting lines to separate portions of fabric of said first tubular element to create flaps of fabric belonging to the front side and to the rear side of the first tubular element; and joining with stitches the flaps of said portions of fabric obtained with said cutting lines to create at least the two sleeves and the trunk of said undershirt from said first tubular element.

Abstract: Medical device made of biomaterial, for implant-based breast reconstruction, having a flat original shape of plane geometry, with sections, which sutured together define the front part, lateral, upper and lower of a box element, at least one of the aforesaid sections having at least one appendix adapted to define the rear part of the box element, said box element being adapted to wrap and contain integrally a breast prosthesis, said box element being configured to be interposed between the subcutaneous layer and the pectoralis major muscle and being suturable to the latter.

Abstract: A device for postoperative compression of breast skin following breast reconstruction surgery includes a female garment that supports the breast, and wherein each cup of the garment contains inflatable modules with defined pressure gradients that generate different compressive orthogonal vectors on the four quadrants of the breast, leaving the areola-nipple complex free. The inflatable tubular modules have a shape resembling a truncated cone with variable thickness that is minimum in the area closest to the areola-nipple complex, and maximum in the area furthest away from the areola-nipple complex. The inflatable modules can be inflated separately. The device is made up of non-elastic tissue preventing the cups from moving away from breast skin when air chambers are inflated, and includes two non-elastic tissue straps that cross on the spine and close on the front. In the two sub-axillary areas, a Velcro clasp allows operation even when postoperative drainage is in place.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cutting-off machine for cutting logs of sheet material, including at least one cutting blade placed on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the logs, in order to perform transverse cuts over the same and produce rolls of smaller length than the logs, wherein the at least one cutting blade is associated with an ultrasonic device apt to generate a vibrating force on the blade.

Abstract: A device is initially rolled up can unfold into its original spherical dome shape after insertion through a surgical incision.

Abstract: Medical device made of biomaterial, for implant-based breast reconstruction, having a flat original shape of plane geometry, with sections, which sutured together define the front part, lateral, upper and lower of a box element, at least one of the aforesaid sections having at least one appendix adapted to define the rear part of the box element, said box element being adapted to wrap and contain integrally a breast prosthesis, said box element being configured to be interposed between the subcutaneous layer and the pectoralis major muscle and being suturable to the latter.

Abstract: Medical device made of biomaterial, for implant-based breast reconstruction, having a flat original shape of plane geometry, with sections, which sutured together define the front part, lateral, upper and lower of a box element, at least one of the aforesaid sections having at least one appendix adapted to define the rear part of the box element, said box element being adapted to wrap and contain integrally a breast prosthesis, said box element being configured to be interposed between the subcutaneous layer and the pectoralis major muscle and being suturable to the latter.

Abstract: A rewinding machine for the production of rolls of web material wound around winding cores includes: a winding cradle, including peripheral winding members of the rolls; a feeding path of the web material towards the winding cradle; an insertion channel for inserting the winding cores towards the winding cradle, having an entrance inside which the winding cores are introduced and an exit toward the winding cradle, the insertion channel being defined between a rolling surface and a continuous flexible member, provided with a forward movement; an inserter for inserting the winding cores into the inserting channel. At the entrance of the insertion channel a pressing device is arranged, said pressing device projects toward the inside of the insertion channel and toward the continuous flexible member. The pressing device is arranged and configured to press the winding cores entering the insertion channel towards the continuous flexible member.

Abstract: A machine is shown having a winding unit (3) and a cutting unit (7) to cut a tube (T) being formed around a mandrel (5). The cutting unit (7) has a rotating cutting blade (9) provided with motion along a circular trajectory, defined by means of a system of cross guides and a fastening to a center of a circular trajectory. The position of the center (33B) of the circular trajectory of the rotating cutting blade (9) is changed according to the direction of movement of the blade with respect to the mandrel, so that the rotating cutting blade (9) cuts the tube (T) during a forward movement and is released form the tube during a backward movement. Methods for production of tubes by means of helical winding of one or more strips of web material around a mandrel are shown as well.

Abstract: A rewinding machine for the production of rolls of web material wound around winding cores includes: a winding cradle including peripheral winding members of the rolls; a feeding path of the web material towards the winding cradle; an insertion channel for inserting the winding cores towards the winding cradle, having an entrance inside which the winding cores are introduced and an exit toward the winding cradle, the insertion channel being defined between a rolling surface and a continuous flexible member, provided with a forward movement; an inserter for inserting the winding cores into the inserting channel. At the entrance of the insertion channel a pressing device is arranged, said pressing device projects toward the inside of the insertion channel and toward the continuous flexible member. The pressing device is arranged and configured to press the winding cores entering the insertion channel towards the continuous flexible member.

Abstract: The present application has as its object a medical device, specifically for breast reconstruction, made from a biomaterial, characterized from a flat original shape of plane geometry, with sections, which when sutured together, define the front part, lateral, upper and lower of a box element, at least one of the aforesaid sections having at least one appendix adapted to define the rear part of the aforesaid box element, said box element being adapted to enclose or containing integrally a breast prosthesis, said box element being interposed between the skin and the pectoralis major muscle and being suturable to the latter.