A packaging for an implant to hold the implant in a first condition. The packaging including a first packaging tube and a container, wherein the implant is movable from the container into the first tube and maintained within the first tube in a second condition, the implant having a first transverse dimension in the first condition and a second transverse dimension in the second condition, the second transverse dimension being less than the first transverse dimension.

An electrolytic detachment mechanism and an electrolytic detachment device are disclosed. The electrolytic detachment mechanism is intended for cooperation with an electrolytic detachment apparatus to achieve an electrolytic detachment of an implant. The electrolytic detachment mechanism includes the implant, a detachment member (103), an electrical conduction member (101) and an absorption member (102). When absorbing electrolytes, the absorption member (102) will maintain electrical conduction between the detachment member (103) and a cathodic conductive element, thus resulting in enhanced electrolytic detachment reliability and overcoming the problems of a long detachment time and required multiple detachment attempts associated with existing electrolytic detachment devices. The electrolytic detachment device incorporates the electrolytic detachment mechanism, therefore, electrolytic detachment of the detachment member (103) can be caused within a catheter (301) without needing to push the detachment member (103) out of an opening at the distal of the catheter (301). This can avoid the problems of a possibly dangerous, excessively long length of extension of the implant out of the opening at the distal of the catheter (301) and the occurrence of a “recoil” effect, thus significantly enhancing the safety and reliability during the implantation of the electrolytic detachment device.

A tissue repair device and a method for using the same are provided. The tissue repair device includes a body portion and at least one wire. The body portion includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is close to a tissue, wherein the inner layer includes a hydrophilic structure, and the outer layer includes a hydrophobic structure. The wire is connected to the body portion to fix the body portion to the tissue.

A device may include a flexible tube comprising: a distal end, a proximal tip, the proximal tip comprising a suction line extension being configured for placement in a uterine cavity of a uterus after childbirth, a tube center of the flexible tube; and at least one lumen around the tube center, the at least one lumen comprising a suction line, the suction line being in communication with a source of negative pressure and the suction line extension, the suction line extension being configured for applying the negative pressure to the uterine cavity using the source of the negative pressure thereby causing mechanical hemostasis of bleeding blood vessels of a uterine wall of the uterine cavity. Embodiments include an anchoring mechanism being proximate to the suction line extension along the flexible tube, the anchoring mechanism being configured for maintaining the suction line extension in a desired position within the uterine cavity.

A cervical dilator including a stem comprising a partly or fully dehydrated hydrogel comprising a water-insoluble synthetic hydrophilic polymer capable of radial expansion due to absorption of water from a bodily fluid. The cervical dilator softens and ripens the cervical tissue and expands the cervical canal by a combined action of radial hydrogel stem expansion and osmotic withdrawal of water from the tissue. The osmotic withdrawal is caused by at least one osmotically active compound, such as a water-soluble salt, a polyelectrolyte, or a mixture thereof, wherein the at least one osmotically active compound is dispersed in the hydrogel. The cervical dilator may also include a non-toxic plasticizer of the hydrogel, such as water.

A device for occluding a vasculature of a patient including a micrograft having an absorbent polymeric structure with a lumen of transporting blood. The micrograft has a series of peaks and valleys formed by crimping. The occluding device is sufficiently small and flexible to be tracked on a guidewire and/or pushed through a microcatheter to a site within the vasculature of the patient. Delivery systems for delivering the micrografts are also disclosed.

An embolization microcatheter is configured to deliver embolization particles to a target area and minimize or prevent embolization of a non-target area. The microcatheter includes a section, located between the distal and proximal ends of the microcatheter, having a skeleton formed of braided wires and a polymeric layer intercalated into and/or overlaying the skeleton. This section includes a plurality of axial slits, each slit having a smallest cross-sectional dimension configured to prevent outflow of the embolization particles.

Fiducial marker devices and systems that facilitate improved tracking in surgical environments are disclosed. In one example, this technology includes a fiducial marker device having active and backing layers in which the backing layer includes beacon(s) or a printed visual pattern. The adhesive layer includes an adhesive material to facilitate adhesion of the fiducial marker device when in contact with fluid associated with an anatomical structure. In another example, a fiducial marker stamp pen includes a body and a shaft disposed within an inner lumen of the body and coupled to a slider. The slider is advanced to move the shaft to deposit a material, via cutouts in a tip of the body or embossed features extending from a tip of the shaft, on an anatomical structure. In yet another example, a fiducial marker deformable applicator assembly is configured to deposit a pattern that can represent a fiducial marker.

A staple cartridge comprising a cartridge deck, a longitudinal slot defined within the staple cartridge, staple cavities defined in the deck, and a tissue thickness compensator is disclosed. The tissue thickness compensator comprises lumens. Each of the lumens comprise a cross-section and are formed by a tubular element. The lumens are laterally-oriented and spaced on the cartridge deck along the longitudinal axis of the staple cartridge. Each lumen extends across the width of the staple cartridge such that each lumen overlaps a plurality of the staple cavities and the longitudinal slot. The lumens are configured to collapse when pressure is applied to the lumens during a firing motion.

The designs and methods disclosed herein are for a clot retrieval catheter with a large bore shaft and a distal braid-supported tip that is expandable to a diameter larger than the outer sheath through which it is delivered. The shaft can have a plurality of supporting braids fixed distally to a radiopaque marker band. The tip can have another plurality of supporting braids fixed proximally to the marker band and a decreasing braid angle distally so that the tip can be heat set to an expanded funnel shape. The wires of the tip braids can follow one spiral direction distally and then invert proximally back on themselves to form the other spiral direction of the braid. This inversion of the wires results in atraumatic distal hoops at the distal termination of the braid. Designs can further have spines capable of resisting elongation of the catheter shaft during a procedure.