Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Depuy Mitek, Inc.

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Navilyst Medical, Inc.

Cytrellis Biosystems, Inc.

Lifeshield Sciences LLC

Other

Angiodynamics, Inc.

Kristian J DiMatteo

Mehmet Ziya Sengun

Gregory R Whittaker

Robert C Thistle

William Joseph Shaw

Brooks J Story

Douglas Allen Fifolt

Adrian C Ravenscroft

Robert F Rioux

Paul DiCarlo

Robert B Devries

Mark A Capobianco

Marc Tassy, Jr

Paul C DiCesare

Nathan Stewart Cauldwell

Marc O Schurr

Roy H Sullivan, Iii

John A Griego

Gerhard F Buess

Andrew J Campbell

Peter Hamilton

Jonathan Howe

Albert Chin

Daniel Kalanovic

Sean Gilligan

Peter Marshall

Chris Kilburn-Peterson

Darragh Colgan

John C Spiridigliozzi

Jose E Lizardi

Raymond Lareau

George T Roberts

William Reiser

Jeff Parrish

Sharon Mi Lyn Tan

Kairi Lofton

Kurt Ballou

Katie Daly

Michael S H Chu

Isaac Ostrovsky

Robert James Boock

Michael J Bettuchi

Kevin J Ranucci

Alec Ginggen

Patrick N Gutelius

Benjamin Cleveland

Hugh S West, Jr

Roy Hewitt Sullivan

Steven E Walak

Peter J Shank

Ellen M Golds

Robert B DeVries

Hannah Kim

Hugh S West

Shelby L Cook

Christopher Weinert

Jason Sullivan

John Keller

Matthew S Ketterer

Michael J Wallace

Bernedette Proskoczilo

Patrick Gutileus

Robert S Pesce

Barry N Gellman

John B Golden

Thomas Swyst

Mark L Adams

Oscar R Carrillo, Jr

Vincent A Turturro

Douglas Adam Levinson

George Bourne

James Weldon

Erik Sebastian Sojka

John E Hutchins

William R Parrish

Robert M Rauker

Kurt A E Geitz

Barbara Bell

Oivind Brockmeier

Shubhang Mishra

Robert Brik

Nancy Usiak

Jose Lizardi

Nicholas Anderson

Erik S Sojke

William Parrish

Tak Kwan

Christopher Kilburn-Peterson

Eric Houde

Methods and devices are provided for repairing a tear in a meniscus. A pair of fixation member each entailing a preformed knot configuration coupled together by a suture length. The fixation members are placed on the meniscal tissue with the suture length spanning the tear, the knot configurations are expanded to form anchoring knots and the suture length is shortened to close the tear.

Methods and devices for repairing meniscal tissue

Methods and devices are provided for preparing and implanting tissue scaffolds. Various embodiments of scribing tools are provided that are configured to mark one or more predetermined shapes around a defect site in tissue. The shape or shapes marked in tissue can be used to cut a tissue scaffold having a shape that matches the shape or shapes marked in tissue. In one embodiment, the scribing tool used to mark a shape in tissue can also be used to cut the tissue scaffold.

Methods and devices for preparing and implanting tissue scaffolds

Methods and devices are provided for anchoring suture to bone. In one exemplary embodiment, a cannulated suture anchor is provided and it includes a suture-engaging member formed therein and configured to receive a suture therearound such that trailing ends of the suture can extend through the suture anchor. The suture anchor can also include at least a proximal portion having dual threads to facilitate engagement with bone. The present invention also provides exemplary sutures and drivers that can be used with the various methods and devices disclosed herein, or with other methods and devices known in the art.

Methods for anchoring suture to bone

Methods and devices are provided for delivering and affixing tissue replacements. In one embodiment, a tissue scaffold can be delivered into a patient through a cannula to a cavity formed at a defect site in tissue, e.g., cartilage. A delivery shaft can be used to deliver the scaffold through the cannula, and a loading device can help load the scaffold onto the delivery shaft. A delivery guide device can position and temporarily hold the scaffold within the cavity. The delivery guide device can guide one or more surgical instruments to the scaffold to affix the scaffold within the cavity, e.g., to bone underlying the scaffold, using at least one securing mechanism.

Methods and devices for delivering and affixing tissue scaffolds

A suture anchor has a tubular body having an axial bore therethrough with one or more purchase enhancements on an exterior surface of the body adapted to enhance purchase of the body within a bone hole. These are preferably screw threads. A distal nose of the suture body has a smooth exterior surface. A length of suture passes down along the exterior surface over the purchase enhancements, over the distal nose, and up into the bore. The smooth exterior surface of the distal nose allows tension of the suture to be held by the engagement of the nose within the bone hole thus making it easier to obtain proper tension as the remaining portion is engaged into the bone hole to provide final fixation.

Knotless suture anchor with unthreaded nose

Disclosed herein are devices (e.g., needles (e.g., hollow needles), hollow staples, articles, apparatuses, and systems), kits, and methods for treating skin and skin conditions, for example, by promoting skin tightening, such as by reducing skin laxity and reducing tissue area or volume.

Devices and methods for cosmetic skin resurfacing

Disclosed herein are apparatuses, kits, and methods for treating skin, such as skin tightening, e.g., reducing skin laxity, for treating conditions that would benefit from tissue area or volume reduction, skin restoration, skin tightening, skin lifting, and/or skin repositioning, and/or for generally improving skin function or appearance. Such apparatuses, kits, and methods include one or more hollow needles each having at least one prong and a mechanism for removing skin tissue portion(s) from the hollow needle(s).

Methods and devices are provided for anchoring suture to tissue, incorporating anchoring devices constructed substantially from suture. The anchoring devices are constructed as longitudinally extended, preformed knot configurations that upon deployment are reconfigured to form anchoring knots having an increased cross-section relative to the preformed knot configuration, for secure lodging in tissue. The anchoring devices are suitable for single and multi-anchor surgical procedures in soft tissue or bone, and multiple anchors can be delivered using a single delivery device.

Methods and devices for repairing and anchoring damaged tissue

According to an aspect of the invention, an indwelling catheter is provided which comprises a catheter shaft. The catheter either comprises a light source or is adapted to receive light from a light source, and is configured such that light is transmitted from the light source into the catheter shaft. Moreover, the catheter shaft is formed of a polymeric material that transmits a quantity of light from the light source that is effective to inactivate microorganisms on a surface of the catheter shaft upon activation of the light source. For example, the light may inactivate the microorganisms directly or in conjunction with a photosensitizer. According to another aspect of the invention, a sterilization method is provided, which comprises activating the light source while the catheter is inserted in a subject.

Sterilizable indwelling catheters

A method provides for procuring platelet rich plasma (PRP) from a sample of whole blood in a vial. The method includes the steps of: separating the whole blood into layers through centrifugation with an upper layer containing platelet poor plasma (PPP) and a PRP layer below the upper layer containing PRP; adjusting an end point of a first range of motion of an extractor relative to a position of the PRP layer; moving the extractor through the first range of motion through the vial, PPP passing out from the upper layer through the extractor; and after the extractor reaches the end point of the first range of motion, extracting the PRP through the extractor and collecting the PRP.

Methods and devices for collecting separate components of whole blood

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Maynard, MA, United States of America

Kristian J DiMatteo