Artificial vascular and patch grafts comprising a flexible elastic fabric substrate of predetermined shape fabricated from small diameter fiber having a tensile modulus of at least about 2.times.10.sup.6 psi, and a thin, smooth, adherent, isotropic carbon coating on the substrate fiber having particular properties including a tensile fracture strain of at least about 5%.

The instrument has a separable body composed of two oblong interlinked members, each of them carrying at one of its vacant ends a detachable split bush adapted for the element being sutured to pass through the interior thereof and arranged across the longitudinal axis of the respective instrument body member. The bushes have flanges on the ends facing each other, each of the flanges having an open annular slot in the surfaces facing each other, and an opening made in the lateral face of the flan...

Novel cardiovascular prosthetic devices or implants having many useful cardiovascular applications comprise a porous surface and a network of interconnected interstitial pores below the surface in fluid flow communication with the surface pores. Tissue forms a smooth thin adherent coating of self-determining thickness on the porous surface making it resistant to the formation of the blood clots normally associated with the presence of foreign bodies in the blood stream. The device has particular...

A porous tube suitable for use as a vascular graft prosthesis is disclosed. It is reinforced by external ribs, integral with the tube wall. These ribs are generally transverse to the tube axis and less porous than the wall. Suitable tubing can be made from polymers exhibiting a significant degree of crystallinity, preferably polytetrafluoroethylene. Methods for making these ribbed, porous tubes are also disclosed.

A vascular anastomosis apparatus using a carbon dioxide laser is proposed. The vascular anastomosis apparatus satisfies three conditions: a long focal distance of not less than 10 cm which is suitable for surgical operations under microscopic observation; a beam spot diameter of 0.1 to 0.3 mm when a laser beam is converged; and a stable, small beam output of not more than 100 mW. A visible guide beam having the same focusing point as that of the carbon dioxide laser beam is used in the vascular ...

The invention concerns a means having two instruments for everting an end of a severed artery over a ferrule surrounding the artery. A handle of a flaring instrument is squeezed to rotate a head section. Arms mounted to the head section open in the manner of an iris-diaphragm mechanism to flare the arterial end. Another instrument, curved forceps, urge the artery via the ferrule into the head section such that the arterial end is everted over the ferrule. Two everted arterial ends may be joined ...

A laser vascular anastomosis apparatus comprising a fiber probe with a conical tip formed at its distal end for transmitting therethrough an applying laser rays to butted vascular ends to be joined. The probe is inserted through the wall of one of vascular ducts to be anastomosed and then the conical tip is positioned inside the butt joint. The conical tip serves to reflect laser rays incident upon its wall once by total internal reflection and then to allow the reflected laser rays to emanate f...

This invention provides a vascular stabilizer in which a base plate that has a major medial longitudinal aperture or slot is adapted to be positioned so that the edges of the slot embrace a vein. The slot is defined by an arched connector or hood portion to rigify the slot and to protect a needle-type catheter in inserted position and means are provided to readily secure the base plate member to the patient as well as exerting mild pressure on either side of the vein to be infused.

A multiple lumen vascular access port including a base, first and second lumens in the base, first and second catheters in communication with the first and second lumens, respectively, a boss in contiguous relationship to the first lumen to permit its identification by feel, metal tubes in the catheters proximate the lumens to prevent leakable puncture of the catheters in the event of penetration of the catheters by a needle, and a tube leading to the second lumen being recessed within a metal p...

The present invention relates to an artificial vascular graft having ultra fine fibers smaller than 0.5 denier in fineness as part of the inner wall. The artificial vascular graft of this invention is very flexible and produces very low blood leakage. The ease of performing anastomoses is greatly improved. Because of the ultra fine fiber there are many sites to which live cells adhere, the adaptability of the live cells to the fibers of the vascular graft increases, an excellent antithrombotic e...