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US 9,849,007 B2Granted
Scaffold system for tissue repair
AssigneeBoard of Regents, The University of Texas System
InventorsJ. Jordan Massey Kaufmann, C. Mauli Agrawal, Steven R. Bailey
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Abstract
A device for treating a damaged tissue includes an expandable scaffold positionable in a portion of a luminal tissue structure of a mammal; and maintained via stent technology, wherein the scaffold is comprised of electrospun fibers composed of a biodegradable compound. The scaffold serves as a temporary template that allows the tissue to be rebuilt.
Claims9
A vascular tissue repair device, comprising:
- a generally tubular diametrically expandable intraluminal scaffold having a luminal surface and an abluminal surface and being composed of nonwoven fibers made of a biodegradable and/or bioresorbable material, the luminal surface being comprised of substantially curvilinear nonwoven fibers and the abluminal surface comprising substantially linear fibers and the abluminal surface facing a luminal wall of the vascular tissue;
- wherein the generally tubular diametrically expandable intraluminal scaffold has an average porosity configured to allow cellular permeability and cellular proliferation onto the nonwoven fibers of the scaffold, the scaffold further configured to become substantially impermeable upon substantial cellular proliferation onto the nonwoven fibers of the scaffold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.