Abstract: An absorbent medical body for removing wound fluids from human and/or animal body cavities includes a material which holds the absorbent body together in a compressed form and can be removed upon contact with a biocompatible liquid.

Abstract: A surgical suture material includes a drawn elongate main body and barbs adapted to anchor in human and/or animal tissues, wherein the barbs are partially in drawn form.

Abstract: A drawn surgical suture material includes an elongate main body and barbs for anchoring in biological tissues, wherein the barbs are formed by cuts made into the suture material in the undrawn state.

Abstract: A thread includes an elongate thread body having on its surface protruding anchoring structures that anchor in biological tissues, and a stiffening coating on the anchoring structures.

Abstract: A surgical thread includes a polymeric core and a polymeric sheath surrounding the core, wherein the sheath includes barbs for anchoring in human and/or animal, tissues.

Abstract: Thread for use as a knotless or self-fixing surgical suture material including a main body, and anchoring structures formed on a surface of the main body of the thread and anchored in human or animal tissues, wherein at least some of the anchoring structures are at least partially covered by a coating of the main body of the thread, which coating is removable by liquids.

Abstract: An elastomeric thread for use as a knotless or self-fixating wound closure system includes on its surface anchoring structures for anchoring in biological, more particularly human and/or animal, tissues.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medicotechnical product having an antimicrobial finish consisting of a complex material of metal nanoparticles and macromolecules, the macromolecules being at least partially formed from amphiphilically modified polyamino acids which contain amino acid units, which aside from the functional groups bonded in the peptide bond contain at least one further functional group and at least some of these groups are modified with substances bearing hydrophobic radicals via covalent bonds. The hydrophobic radicals are bonded by addition of substances bearing epoxy groups to the at least one further functional group and/or via at least one amino group of an amino acid unit bearing at least one amino group as a further functional group with maintenance of an amino function on the polyamino acids. The invention furthermore relates to the production of the complex material and of the medicotechnical product.

Abstract: A drawn surgical suture material includes an elongate main body and barbs for anchoring in biological tissues, wherein the barbs are formed by cuts made into the suture material in the undrawn state.

Abstract: A medical product including a biocompatible material includes two mutually opposite main surfaces, wherein at least one of the two main surfaces that anchor biological tissues, wherein the barbs protrude from the at least one main surface and are formed by cuts made in the biocompatible material, and wherein the material between the two main surfaces is completely broken through in an area of the cuts.

Abstract: An absorbent medical body for removing wound fluids from human and/or animal body cavities includes a material which holds the absorbent body together in a compressed form and can be removed upon contact with a biocompatible liquid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical implant which is equipped with an antimicrobial composition which comprises silicon dioxide and metal-containing nanoparticles, and processes for producing the medical implant.

Abstract: A surgical suture includes a filamentary braid including filamentary elements (16; 20; 216; 220a-e; 34; 36; 44) projecting from the filamentary braid for anchoring in biological tissues.

Abstract: A textile implant includes at least one thread having a polymeric core and a polymeric sheath which surrounds the polymeric core at least partly, wherein the sheath includes a composition including at least one silica-supported antimicrobial active agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medicotechnical product having an antimicrobial finish consisting of a complex material of metal nanoparticles and macromolecules, the macromolecules being at least partially formed from amphiphilically modified polyamino acids which contain amino acid units, which aside from the functional groups bonded in the peptide bond contain at least one further functional group and at least some of these groups are modified with substances bearing hydrophobic radicals via covalent bonds. The hydrophobic radicals are bonded by addition of substances bearing epoxy groups to the at least one further functional group and/or via at least one amino group of an amino acid unit bearing at least one amino group as a further functional group with maintenance of an amino function on the polyamino acids. The invention furthermore relates to the production of the complex material and of the medicotechnical product.