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Cortronik Gmbh

Ullrich Bayer

Daniel Lootz

Bernd Block

Baerbel Becher

Bodo Gerold

Johannes Riedmueller

Bjoern Klocke

Niels Grabow

Thomas Eickner

Okechukwu Anopuo

Nils Venohr

Sabine Illner

Klaus-Peter Schmitz

Claus Harder

Alexander Rzany

Fabian Risch

Bodo Quint

Elisabeta Burean

Nina Adden

Bjoern Rueter

Iris Kirchner

Patricia Decker

Robert Voegele

Guenter Ewert

Jan Schettler

Frank Endres

Horst Fircho

Andre Schoof

Anna Mirabelli

Nils Goetzen

Jan Hannemann

Thomas Drobek

Susanne Peters

Monika Badendieck

Martina Schroeder

Wolfgang Schultz

Dirk Sadler

Günter Ewert

Nils Götzen

Martina Schröder

Burean Elisabeta

Robert Vögele

Bärbel Becher

Björn Klocke

Johannes RIEDMÜLLER

Gesa Berngruber

Björn RÜTER

Alexander Heuss

André Schoof

Uwe Knop

A method for connecting an X-ray marker to a medical implant includes providing a medical implant having an opening for receiving the X-ray marker. An X-ray marker is provided. The X-ray marker is glued into the opening with a liquid adhesive that includes at least one first component including a fibrinogen.

Automated method for the effective fixation of X-ray markers in vascular implants

A method for producing x-ray markers. During the process, a predetermined breaking point is severed in order to detach x-ray markers from part of a material layer. There is also described an x-ray marker, a medical implant, and a semifinished product.

X-ray markers for scaffolds

A lubricant includes at least 45 wt % paraffin oil, less than 8 wt % of a pyrophosphate or triphosphate, more than 6 wt % of a group 6 disulfide or diselenide and up to 27.5 wt % of graphite. The lubricant is used in a method for producing a magnesium alloy tube via extrusion, and is especially useful to form implants such as stents while maintaining the biocompatibility of the magnesium alloy.

Lubricant and method for manufacturing magnesium alloy tubes

An implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, or a semi-finished part for an implant, having a hollow cylindrical body, wherein the body includes magnesium, and the body is enriched with gallium or a gallium alloy in a region close to a surface.

Implant and method for production thereof

An x-ray marker for an endoprosthesis and an endoprosthesis with an x-ray marker are provided. The endoprosthesis includes a hollow cylinder made of a first radiopaque metal and a marker element, which is fixedly connected to the hollow cylinder and which is arranged inside the hollow cylinder and consists of a second radiopaque metal. The marker element can be a metal powder or in the form of metal particles which is/are embedded in the electrically non-conductive material. The marker element can be solid cylinder with a diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the hollow cylinder and the electrically non-conductive material can form a layer between an inner lateral surface of the hollow cylinder and a lateral surface of the solid cylinder.

X-ray marker and endoprosthesis with X-ray marker

A medical implant that includes a scaffold having at least one receptacle for an X-ray marker. The scaffold includes a first metal. At least one (preferably monolithic) X-ray marker is disposed in the receptacle. The X-ray marker includes a second metal. An electrically insulating coating is upon the X-ray marker to prevent corrosion-promoting contact between the X-ray marker and the scaffold.

X-ray marker for absorbable metallic scaffolds having high X-ray visibility and integrated self-passivation effect

A method for increasing the fatigue strength of a tubular semifinished product for a medical implant, a tubular semifinished product for a medical implant having improved fatigue strength, and a medical implant produced from such a semifinished product.

Thermochemically treated miniature tubes as semifinished products for vascular stents

The present invention relates to an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprothesis, comprising a body containing a metallic material, and comprising at least one functional element that is fastened to the body and has a material composition in at least a portion of its volume that differs from the material of the body, the material composition preferably including radio-opaque and/or x-ray opaque material. To effectively prevent accelerated degradation due to the formation of a local cell of the material of the body and the functional element, the at least one functional element includes a first layer at least in the region of its surface where it is bonded to the body, the first layer primarily containing at least one metal oxide. Furthermore, the manufacture of an implant of this type is described.

Implant and method for manufacturing same

An orthopedic implant, such as a bone screw with a self-tapping thread, is formed of a biodegradable material such as a magnesium alloy. A bioactive surface coating is provided on the implant, such as at the threading. The coating contains micro-abrasives which assist with screw/implant penetration, and/or contains microcapsules containing lubricant, wherein the microcapsules rupture from pressure and frictional heat as the implant penetrates bone.

Orthopedic implants, particularly bone screws, and methods for producing same

A bone screw formed primarily of a magnesium alloy has a self-tapping thread, and is prestressed with a retained torsional stress oriented oppositely to the direction in which the screw is screwed into bone. The pre-stressing opposes the torsional stresses arising from screwing in the screw, thereby raising the effective strength of the screw and/or allowing for a reduction in its size/mass.

Resorbable metal screw with increased torsional strength for osteopathy

A method for producing an implant and the implant itself, particularly an intraluminal endoprosthesis, wherein the implant is produced from a preferably hollow cylindrical semifinished article (), wherein the semifinished article contains magnesium or a magnesium alloy, the method comprising preparing the semifinished article (), and shaping the semifinished article at a temperature of between 250&#xb0; C. and 550&#xb0; C. using a tool, which has a metallic lubricant containing gallium and/or a gallium compound on at least a part of its surface that will come into contact with the semifinished article.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, having a body containing metallic material, preferably iron. For controlling the degradation of the implant the method includes the following steps: (a) providing a first part of the implant body; and (b) performing heat treatment which alters the carbon content and/or the boron content and/or the nitrogen content in the structure of a near-surface boundary layer in the first part of the implant body in such a way that strain on the lattice or a lattice transformation, optionally following a subsequent mechanical load, is achieved in the near-surface boundary layer. Such an implant is also described.

The production of microstructured surfaces in magnesium alloys, containing zinc as the major alloying element, in particular in absorbable implants such as stents, wherein microstructures in sizes of up to 5 &#x3bc;m (micrometers) are generated on a magnesium alloy base body of the absorbable implant, for example of the absorbable stent, by way of optionally combined, pickling and electrochemical micropolishing processes, and allow better adhesion of a polymer coating (including higher break resistance) and higher corrosion resistance. The microstructured surface is produced out of the bulk material and exhibits no delamination from the base material during the mechanical deformation of the implant.

Microstructured absorbable implant

A method for producing a semifinished part () for an implant, in particular for an intraluminal endoprosthesis, which comprises the following steps:

Implant and method for producing the same

The present invention relates to an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, the body of which comprises at least predominantly a material with iron as the main constituent. For accelerating the degradation, the material comprises sulfur as first minor constituent with a concentration of more than 0.2% by weight and not more than 1% by weight, preferably not more than 0.5% by weight, and comprises as second minor constituent at least one element of the group which comprises calcium, manganese and magnesium. Furthermore, a method for producing such an implant is described.

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