Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Cook Biotech, Inc.

Muffin Incorporated

Andrew J Kaucher

Neal E Fearnot

Darin Gene Schaeffer

Michael C Hiles

Steven Charlebois

F Joseph Obermiller

Patrick C Melder

P Arun Mohan

Jeremy Metz

Described are medical graft materials and devices which can be usefully modified with liquid additives such as cell suspensions, bioactive agents, or combinations of these. The medical graft materials and devices can have a first outer surface and a second outer surface and can define an internal chamber between the first outer surface and the second outer surface. The medical graft materials and devices can also have at least one region of the graft material interrupting the chamber and surrounded by the chamber. Also described are methods for making and using these medical graft materials and devices.

Modifiable medical grafts and related methods and apparatuses

Described are graft devices useful for treating surgical defects, delivery implements for delivery of the graft devices, combinations thereof, and methods for the preparation and use thereof. In certain aspects a tonsillectomy graft can include convexly curved outer edges, where the graft is sized and configured such that these outer edges reside proximate and along tonsillar pillars bounding a surgical tonsillectomy defect. The graft can include one or more pull tethers laced to the graft and functional to draw these outer edges toward one another when tensioned. The graft can be combined with a delivery implement having a delivery head and attached handle, where the delivery head is sized for receipt onto the tonsillectomy defect to deliver the graft. Additional product features, as well as associated methods, are also described.

Methods for delivering surgical grafts to a resected tonsil

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Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Andrew J Kaucher