Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Stryker Corporation

Stryker Nv Operations Limited

Frank A Musbach

Tracee E Eidenschink

Brent C Gerberding

Masoud Molaei

John Ortiz

Wayne A Becker

Wang Leng Yang

Kent James Zachman

Daniel James Horn

Richard Charles Gunderson

Tracee E J Eidenschink

Richard G Cornelius

Richard L Goodin

Richard J Olson

Jason Todd Lenz

Daniel Keith Tomaschko

Todd H Turnlund

John Peckham

Larry A Walter

Douglas C Lee

A stent comprises at least one stent member woven to form a substantially tubular body that defines a flow path. The tubular body comprises a first region and a second region. In the first region the at least one stent member defines a plurality of first region openings and in the second region at least one first portion of the at least one member and at least one second portion of the at least one member are engaged together to form at least one primary strand. The at least one primary strand defines a plurality of second region openings. The at least one of the plurality of second region openings is in fluid communication with the flow path. The plurality of second region openings provide the second region with a greater porosity than the first region.

Variable density braid stent

Medical devices that include micromachined hypotubes or that have themselves been micromachined can provide advantages in flexibility, strength and other desirable properties. Examples of such medical devices may include catheters such as guide catheters and balloon catheters. Such devices may also include dual shaft medical devices in which an outer shaft is reversibly lockable onto an inner shaft.

Micromachined medical devices

A vascular graft includes a vessel structure having outer and inner wall surfaces. The vessel structure has outer and inner transverse dimensions. The vascular graft includes a fold structure which is integral with the vessel structure. The fold structure extends from the outer or inner wall surface of the vessel structure for altering the inner or outer transverse dimension thereof. A method for making the vascular graft facilitates formation of the fold structure.

ePTFE lamination&#x2014;resizing ePTFE tubing

A delivery sheath for an intravascular emboli capturing filter including an elongate tube having a distal region having a reduced thickness distal wall region. The delivery sheath, according to the present invention, can have a thinner, softer, distal most portion for superior and more benign interaction with vessel interior walls. The present invention includes an intravascular emboli filter system including an elongate shaft having a distal region, an expandable emboli filter operably coupled to the elongate shaft distal region, and an elongate sheath having a lumen therethrough disposed over the elongate shaft. The elongate sheath can have a distally decreasing outside diameter taper or reduced wall thickness region having improved atraumatic characteristics.

Variable wall thickness for delivery sheath housing

A dilatation balloon configured and formed to have a first inflation profile at a first pressure and a second inflation profile at a second higher pressure and methods of making and using the same.

Controlled deployment balloon

Desired portions of a balloon may be marked by varying the texture of the surface. Marking the balloon facilitates positioning of the balloon on a catheter and facilitates positioning a medical device on the balloon.

Textured and/or marked balloon for stent delivery

An over-the-wire catheter and method of making such a catheter having a first tubular member defining a first lumen and a second tubular member defining a second lumen joined to and coextending with the exterior of the first tubular member to define a catheter shaft. The first and second tubular members being formed independently of one another or of different materials. A balloon is joined to the distal end of the catheter shaft where it is in fluid communication with the first lumen. A flexibility control member may be joined to and coextend with the first and second tubular members.

Over-the-wire balloon catheter

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Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Frank A Musbach