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US 5,383,925 AGranted
Three-dimensional braided soft tissue prosthesis
AssigneeMeadox Medicals, Inc.
InventorPeter J. Schmitt
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Abstract
The present invention provides a soft tissue prosthesis which is formed from a three-dimensional braided structure. The three-dimensional braided structure preferably may be made in the form of a solid three-dimensional braid, a three-dimensional braid having at least one interlocking yarn coupling contiguous layers or in the form of a plurality of two-dimensional braided layers adhesively laminated, separately sewn or otherwise connected together to form the three-dimensional braided prosthesis.
Claims26
A prosthetic device, comprising:
- an implantable tubular three-dimensional braided structure wherein said braided structure includes a plurality of interconnected layers, and
- wherein said structure has an inner fluid contacting surface and an outer tissue contacting surface, and
- wherein said inner surface has a porosity sufficient to discourage leakage of fluid therethrough and said outer surface has a porosity sufficient to allow growth of tissue therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.