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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2007
Franz Freudenthal, La Paz, BO;
Franz Freudenthal, La Paz, BO;
PFM MEDICAL AG, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
In an implantable device () for use in the human and/or animal body for closure or partial closure of defect openings (), cavities, organ passages etc or for providing a defined communicating opening between walls, organs, cavities etc comprising a carrier structure () which in a primary form has a large ratio of length to transverse extent along an axis (x) and in a secondary form has a smaller ratio of length to transverse extent along the axis (x), wherein the carrier structure () has a proximal and a distal portion () and is formed in the manner of a weft and/or mesh and/or layered cloth and/or gauze, at least the one portion () in the secondary form has a first part () facing outwardly away from the other portion () or towards same and a second part () which deploys first from the primary form into the secondary form and which is folded back in a direction towards the other portion () or inwardly on to the first part ().