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Purdue Research Foundation

Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Inc.

Strand Diagnostics, LLC

Peter M Knapp, Jr

Robert J Demeter

Stephen Francis Badylak

Michael C Hiles

Sherry L Voytik-Harbin

Theodore R Schenberg

Travis A Morgan

James E Lingeman

Daniel M Newman

Steven F Badylak

A method and apparatus for minimizing diagnostic errors due to transposition of biological specimens among subjects provides for independent biometric confirmation that a given specimen is from a given donor. In certain embodiments, a biological specimen confirmation kit comprises a portable and openable case housing components of the kit, at least one biological specimen container adapted to receive a biological testing specimen from a donor, and at least one reference sample device adapted to receive a biological reference specimen from the same donor, such that the testing and reference specimens can later be compared for donor match verification by a reference verification entity.

Method and apparatus to minimize diagnostic and other errors due to transposition of biological specimens among subjects

A method for surgical repair of a diseased or damaged bladder is described. Diseased or damaged bladder tissue is surgically replaced with submucosal tissue of a warm blooded vertebrate to promote regrowth of endogenous urinary bladder tissue.

Tissue graft and method for urinary tract urothelium reconstruction and

Tissue graft and method for urinary urothelium reconstruction replacement

A fluidized, injectable tissue graft composition is described. The composition comprises comminuted intestinal submucosa or protease-digested intestinal submucosa. Methods for the preparation and use of injectable tissue graft compositions are described. In preferred embodiments the tissue graft material is prepared from the intestinal submucosa comprising the tunica submucosa, the muscularis mucosa and the stratum compactum of a segment of intestinal tissue of a warm-blooded vertebrate. Effective amounts of the fluidized graft compositions can be injected to promote repair tissue defects by inducing formation of endogenous tissues.

Fluidized intestinal submucosa and its use as an injectable tissue graft

Tissue graft for surgical reconstruction of a collagenous meniscus and

A ureteral stent includes a tubular member of substantially uniform outside diameter, the tubular member having proximal and distal ends connected by a body portion, the proximal end including a retention curve to retain the proximal end in the bladder, and the distal end having three portions, the first portion extending from the stent body and being substantially straight, the second portion extending from the first portion and being in the shape of a 360.degree. helical curve having an outside radius, and the third portion extending from the second portion and terminating in a distal tip, the third portion being substantially straight and parallel to the first portion and having a length between 1.2 and 2.0 times the outside radius of the helical curl.

Ureteral stent

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Peter M Knapp, Jr