Heterologous arterial transplants

US4083066A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Solco Basel AG · CH

Inventors

• Heribert Schmitz · Solms, DE
• Walter Stocklin · Ettingen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 7, 1975
• Grant date: Apr 11, 1978
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S623/917
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a process for the preparation of heterologous arterial transplants comprising freeing young animal arteries of surrounding tissue, ligating collateral branches, subjecting the resulting arteries to proteolysis to remove elastic fibers and muscle tissue to obtain collagen tubes and tanning the latter tubes to effect cross-linking, the improvement comprising effecting the proteoylsis and tanning steps in a continuous flow manner.