Surgical implant, method for the production and use thereof

US7530996B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Franz Bentele · Nehren, DE
• Helmut Goldmann · Tuttlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 21, 2002
• Grant date: May 12, 2009
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D10B2509/06
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A surgical implant is made from biocompatible fiber material as a woven textile fabric, in particular in the form of a vascular prosthesis, the woven fabric being so configured that its permeability to blood is so low that the blood impregnates the textile fabric upon implantation and seals it off by coagulating, but does not flow through it.