Abstract: A stent for implanting in the body to hold open a blood vessel includes cells with facing loops and the curved flexible links disposed and adapted to cooperate so that, when unexpanded, the stent can flex as it is moved through curved blood vessels to a site where it is to be expanded and so that, when the stent is expanded in a curved vessel, at that site, as compared to each other, cells on the outside of the curve are open in length, but narrow in width as compared to cells on the inside of the curve which are short in length but increased in width to result in a more constant stent cell area between the inside and the outside of the curve than would otherwise occur causing the stent, when coated with a medicine, to apply a more even dose to the inside wall of the lumen, avoiding the possibility that a toxic dose is supplied at one area while a less than effective dose is applied to another area.

Abstract: An article including a stent including a flap that extends from a tubular support structure, the flap having an arcuate apex.

Abstract: A percutaneous device including a body including a plurality of deformable struts, each strut having a length and a width, the length of the strut extending along an axial length of the body and the width of the strut extending about a perimeter of the body, each strut being outwardly expandable to an expanded orientation in which the length of the strut deforms into a proximal outwardly extending portion and a distal outwardly extending portion with a middle portion extending between the proximal and distal outwardly extending portions, the proximal and distal outwardly extending portions being non-parallel to an axial axis of the body and the middle portion having a surface parallel to the axial axis of the body, wherein the deformable struts are spaced from one another along the axial length and about the perimeter of the body.

Abstract: An intraocular lens assembly including a first lens and a second lens, a haptic, and a first leverage arm connecting the first lens to the haptic and a second leverage arm connecting the second lens to the haptic, the first and second lenses being arranged one in front of the other defining an anterior-posterior axis that passes perpendicularly through centers of the first and second lenses, wherein a width of the haptic extends beyond at least one of the first and second lenses in at least one direction parallel to the anterior-posterior axis.

Abstract: An intraocular lens assembly including an optic connected to an ocular interface element by at least one support member, wherein the at least one support member has a dimension that varies in a direction that distinguishes an anterior side of the optic from a posterior side of the optic, which may be an anterior-posterior-asymmetric optic.

Abstract: A stent including a stent body constructed of a pattern of filaments, and having a side aperture defined by a contour of a loop constructed of at least one filament connected to the rest of the filaments by filament struts, the stent body being expandable to an expanded configuration wherein the loop and the filament struts expand outwards from the rest of the stent body. In the expanded configuration, the loop may expand in a translatory motion, radially outwards from the rest of the stent body. In a non-expanded configuration, the filament struts may lie generally flat with an outer contour of the stent, and in the expanded configuration, the filament struts may bend outwards of the stent at a non-zero angle with respect to the outer contour of the stent.

Abstract: A catheter including at least one inflatable chamber disposed on a catheter stem and in fluid communication with at least one inflation lumen in the catheter stem, the at least one inflatable chamber including an expandable covering with an underfold fluidly sealed to the catheter stem, the underfold including a portion of the expandable covering that is folded underneath itself.

Abstract: A stent assembly including a catheter formed with a side aperture, and a deflector positioned near the side aperture adapted to deflect a guidewire pushed thereagainst to pass through the side aperture.

Abstract: A stent assembly including a catheter formed with a side aperture, and a branch guidewire disposed in the catheter and which passes into the side aperture, the branch guidewire including a stopper sized such that the stopper cannot be pulled through the side aperture into the catheter but can be fixedly held in the side aperture and pushed outwards from the side aperture.

Abstract: An optical scanning device including a bundle of optical fibers adapted for delivering optical energy beams therethrough, and an actuator coupled to the bundle of optical fibers adapted to bend the bundle of optical fibers in a scanning motion.

Abstract: A guidewire for a stent assembly, the guidewire including an outwardly expandable and inwardly contractible deformable portion.

Abstract: An intraocular lens assembly operable to be positioned in a capsular bag, the IOL assembly including a lens, a haptic connected to the lens by connecting structure, and an anti-dislocation element extending from at least one of the lens, haptic and connecting structure, the anti-dislocation element being operable, when positioned in the capsular bag and upon application of a dislocating force, to become wedged and inhibit dislocation of the lens from the capsular bag. The anti-dislocation element may be generally coplanar with the lens or tilted with respect to a plane of the lens.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring intra-ocular pressure of an eye includes a housing and a processor. The housing has a protuberance with a flat surface and the processor includes a distance-measuring unit and a force-measuring unit. Intra-ocular pressure is calculated based on force/distance relationships, where the distance includes a measurement to an internal element of the eye. The processor calculates intra-ocular pressure by determining a zero displacement pressure.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring intra-ocular pressure of an eye includes a housing and a processor. The housing has a protuberance with a flat surface and the processor includes a distance-measuring unit and a force-measuring unit. Intra-ocular pressure is calculated based on force/distance relationships, where the distance includes a measurement to an internal element of the eye. The processor calculates intra-ocular pressure by determining a zero displacement pressure.