Abstract: A method for loading a medical appliance with a medicament and/or a polymer is disclosed, the medical appliance comprising one or more grooves or holes loaded with the medicament and/or polymer. The method comprising the steps of: 1) capturing an image of the grooves or holes of the medical appliance, wherein the image contains at least one complete pattern of the grooves or holes; 2) performing digital image processing on the captured image to obtain the pattern of the grooves or holes; 3) calculating a central position of the pattern of the grooves or holes, and determining an actual central position of the grooves or holes based on the central position; 4) adjusting a relative position of a loading device to the medical appliance to align an outlet of the loading device with the actual central position of the grooves or holes; and 5) opening the outlet of the loading device to load the grooves or holes. A device for loading a medical appliance with a medicament and/or a polymer is further disclosed.

Abstract: A method and a device for loading a medical appliance with a medicament and/or polymer includes capturing images of a plurality of grooves or holes of the medical appliance using an image capturing device; performing digital image processing on the image of each of the grooves or holes to obtain a pattern of each of the grooves or holes; calculating a central position of the pattern of each of the grooves or holes, and determining a loading position of each of the grooves or holes based on the central position; and adjusting a relative position between a loading device and the medical appliance to align an outlet of the loading device with the loading position of the medical appliance, and loading each of the grooves or holes with the medicament and/or polymer. The method and device can load the medical appliance with the medicament and/or polymer fast and efficiently.

Abstract: An electric handle for delivering an implant is disclosed. The electric handle (1) includes an electric control unit (10), a power-driven transmission mechanism (20), a handle housing (30), an outer tube anchor (40) and an inner tube anchor (50), wherein: the electric control unit (10) is operatively coupled to the power-driven transmission mechanism (20) to actuate the power-driven transmission mechanism (20); the power-driven transmission mechanism (20) is supported within the handle housing (30) and moveable together with the outer tube anchor (40); the inner tube anchor (50) is disposed within the handle housing (30) and is configured to hold an inner tube (3) of a delivery system; and the outer tube anchor (40) is configured to hold an outer tube (2) of the delivery system and is fixed to an end of the outer tube (2). A delivery system used especially for delivery of prosthetic valves is also disclosed, including an outer tube (2), an inner tube (3), an expandable implant (4) and the electric handle (1).

Abstract: A stent for a bifurcated vessel includes a stent body (1) with two open ends (5, 6). The stent body (1) includes multiple sets of annular units (2) having multiple undulating rods (4) and connecting rods (3) positioned between adjacent annular units (2) and used to connect the adjacent annular units (2). At least one open end (6) of the stent body (1) has a slope structure.

Abstract: A branched stent graft, a convey system comprising thereof and manufacturing method thereof, the branched stent graft includes a main body (100) and a side branch (200), at least a portion of a lowermost stent section of the side branch (200) closest to the main body (100) is not stitched to the cover of the side branch from a lower end to an upper end, the at least a portion of the lowermost stent section is located on a side of the side branch corresponding to a folding direction of the side branch. After deployed, the branched stent graft has an effective supporting force at the base portion of the side branch. In addition, during the deployment of the stent, the side branch can expand to a maximal extent even when the positioning is slightly inaccurate. Further, vascular stenosis or occlusion will not be caused even when subsequent endothelialization occurs.

Abstract: A stent (1) used for a heart valve prosthesis and the heart valve prosthesis that includes the stent (1) and is used for heart valve replacement. The stent is configured to support a heart valve (3) and includes, along a longitudinal axis, an inflow section (8), an outflow section (6) and a transition section (7) between the inflow section (8) and the outflow section (6). The stent (1) has a contracted delivery configuration and an expanded deployed configuration. In the expanded deployed configuration, the inflow section (8) defines a concave contour that is complementary to a structure of a native valve annulus. The concave contour enables self-deployment and close adherence of the stent (1), thereby preventing its displacement and perivalvular leakage after implantation.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an interventional medical device and methods of making the same. At least one coating layer is disposed on the outer surface of the interventional medical device and the material of the outmost layer of the coating layer is a sulfonate group-containing polymer. In the present invention, the material of the outmost layer of the interventional medical device is a sulfonate group-containing polymer. The polymer is endowed with a same surface property as that of heparin in addition to appropriate hydrophilicity due to the presence of the sulfonate group. After the interventional medical device is implanted into the human body, a hydrophilic surface is formed on the outer surface of the interventional medical device which is also negatively charged in the body fluid. Therefore, cells can easily adhere and grow on the outer surface thereof as a result of the enhanced cell compatibility.

Abstract: A method and a device for loading a medical appliance with a medicament and/or polymer includes capturing images of a plurality of grooves or holes of the medical appliance using an image capturing device; performing digital image processing on the image of each of the grooves or holes to obtain a pattern of each of the grooves or holes; calculating a central position of the pattern of each of the grooves or holes, and determining a loading position of each of the grooves or holes based on the central position; and adjusting a relative position between a loading device and the medical appliance to align an outlet of the loading device with the loading position of the medical appliance, and loading each of the grooves or holes with the medicament and/or polymer. The method and device can load the medical appliance with the medicament and/or polymer fast and efficiently.

Abstract: A degradable polyester stent is disclosed, which includes a polyester composite, wherein the polyester composite is produced from a biodegradable polyester and a metal-based material. A method of preparing the degradable polyester stent is also disclosed. The method can improve the mechanical properties of the biodegradable copolymer stent and can achieve the radiopacity of the main body and the overall of the stent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical instruments. Specifically, a biodegradable cross-linked polymer and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The cross-linked polymer is obtained by bonding crosslinkable reactive groups to terminal groups of a biodegradable prepolymer having two or more arms and further subjecting the prepolymer to thermal polymerization and/or light irradiation. The cross-linked polymer has an elastic modulus of 10-4,500 MPa, and a degradation rate of 3-36 months. A biodegradable vascular stent and a preparation method therefor are also provided. The vascular stent is formed by laser cutting of polymeric tubing having a three-dimensional cross-linked network structure. The vascular stent has ample mechanical strength, a high elastic modulus at body temperature, and a regulatable degradation rate.

Abstract: An invasive cardiac valve comprises a tubular stent (1) and a valve (2). One end of the tubular stent (1) is of a frusto-conical structure, the other end is wide open, and the diameter of the open end is greater than the diameter of the frusto-conical end. The valve (2) is attached to the frusto-conical end of the tubular stent (1); and a delivery and retrieval hole (4) of the cardiac valve is provided at the top of the open end of the tubular stent (1). Because the diameter of the open end is greater than the diameter of the frusto-conical end, the cardiac valve can be effectively fixed in a position of aortic annulus to prevent the cardiac valve displacement caused by the impact of the blood flow. Because the valve (2) is attached to the frusto-conical end of the tubular stent (1), the valve (2) can totally avoid the left and right coronary ostia and does not affect the haemodynamics of the coronary artery.

Abstract: An interventional medical device and manufacturing method thereof. The interventional medical device comprises: a stent body (1); a surface of the stent body (1) being provided with a drug releasing structure (3), and drug in the drug releasing structure (3) being drug for suppressing proliferation of adventitial fibroblasts and a drug for suppressing proliferation of intimal and/or smooth muscle cells. In use, after interventional medical device is implanted into a human body, the drug for suppressing proliferation of adventitial fibroblasts carried thereon can promote the compensatory expansion of the vessel, and the drug for suppressing proliferation of intimal cells and/or smooth muscle cells carried thereon can suppress intimal proliferation of the vessel. The combination of the two kinds of drugs greatly reduces the occurrence rate of in-stent restenosis.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a coronary artery vascular stent with drug carrying slots (2), comprising a plurality of main supporting unit rings (1,8) and connecting rods (4,6). Said main supporting unit rings comprise a plurality of unit waves. There are drug carrying slots (2) at the outer surface of the rods of said unit waves, characterized in that the total slot length of the drug carrying slots (2) is 60%-75% of the total wave rod length of the main supporting unit rings (1,8).

Abstract: A stent graft (5) comprises a tubular graft member (4), and a plurality of sloping stent members (3) substantially coaxial with and coupled to the tubular graft member (4). Each of the sloping stent members (3) comprises multiple uneven apexes characterizing a round tubular configuration with a distal end and a proximal end disposed about a longitudinal axis. The distal apexes of the sloping stent member (3) are arranged in substantially the same plane substantially horizontal to the longitudinal axis of the sloping stent member and the proximal apexes are arranged in a sloping plane oblique to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A branched stent graft comprises a main body portion and a branch portion. Each of the main body portion and the branch portion includes a stent and a tubular graft. The stent of the main body portion includes a plurality of stent segments, at least one of which is a varying-height stent segment (102). The stent of the branch portion includes one or more stent segments, at least one of which is a varying-height stent segment (103). The distance between the proximal-most stent segment of the branch portion and the main body portion is in the range of 2-8 mm. A positioning ring (105) may be used at a side opening which connects the branch portion and the main body portion, and the positioning ring (105) can be sutured inside the graft of the main body, between the graft of the main body and the graft of the branch, or outside the graft of the branch.

Abstract: An interventional medical device and manufacturing method thereof, the interventional medical device comprising a stent body (1); the stent body (1) is provided with a drug releasing structure on the surface, the drug in the drug releasing structure being a drug for inhibiting adventitial fibroblast proliferation. When the interventional medical device is implanted into a human body, the drug for inhibiting the adventitial fibroblast proliferation can be slowly released into vessel wall cells in contact with the stent body (1), thus inhibiting the proliferation of the adventitial fibroblasts, promoting vascular compensatory expansion, and reducing the incidence rate of instent restenosis.

Abstract: A stent for a bifurcated vessel includes a stent body (1) with two open ends (5, 6). The stent body (1) includes multiple sets of annular units (2) having multiple undulating rods (4) and connecting rods (3) positioned between adjacent annular units (2) and used to connect the adjacent annular units (2). At least one open end (6) of the stent body (1) has a slope structure.

Abstract: An interventional medical device and manufacturing method thereof. The interventional medical device comprises: a stent body (1); a surface of the stent body (1) being provided with a drug releasing structure (3), and drug in the drug releasing structure (3) being drug for suppressing proliferation of adventitial fibroblasts and a drug for suppressing proliferation of intimal and/or smooth muscle cells. In use, after interventional medical device is implanted into a human body, the drug for suppressing proliferation of adventitial fibroblasts carried thereon can promote the compensatory expansion of the vessel, and the drug for suppressing proliferation of intimal cells and/or smooth muscle cells carried thereon can suppress intimal proliferation of the vessel. The combination of the two kinds of drugs greatly reduces the occurrence rate of in-stent restenosis.

Abstract: A stent for a bifurcated vessel comprises a stent body having two open ends, wherein at least one of the open ends of the stent body is a wedge structure, a second opaque marker is provided on the two ends of the slant long axis of the wedge structure, the stent body is provided with two first opaque markers, and the connecting line between the two first opaque markers is parallel to the slant of the wedge structure. When the two first opaque markers overlap with each other, the slant of the wedge structure of the stent for a bifurcated vessel is precisely positioned during implantation so that the slant of the wedge structure of the stent for a bifurcated vessel fits the slant at the blood vessel bifurcation site.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an interventional medical device and methods of making the same. At least one coating layer is disposed on the outer surface of the interventional medical device and the material of the outmost layer of the coating layer is a sulfonate group-containing polymer. In the present invention, the material of the outmost layer of the interventional medical device is a sulfonate group-containing polymer. The polymer is endowed with a same surface property as that of heparin in addition to appropriate hydrophilicity due to the presence of the sulfonate group. After the interventional medical device is implanted into the human body, a hydrophilic surface is formed on the outer surface of the interventional medical device which is also negatively charged in the body fluid. Therefore, cells can easily adhere and grow on the outer surface thereof as a result of the enhanced cell compatibility.