This disclosure provides for a medical device to be implanted in the vasculature and a method for treatment in the vasculature. The device has an outer layer of a first material and an inner layer of a second material attached to the outer layer. The inner layer further has a plurality of elastomeric tensioners. If the device experiences relaxation, resulting in a decreased radial force against the vessel wall, the elastomeric tensioners may provide a contraction force to the inner layer and the outer layer, resulting in a maintained radial force on the vessel wall.

An annuloplasty ring including elastic features that make the ring optimal for receiving a subsequent prosthetic valve via a Valve In Ring Procedure. The elastic features provide a squeezing force on the native valve annulus that both ensures coaptation of the native valve leaflets and also prevents paravalvular leakage around a subsequently-placed prosthetic valve.

There is disclosed a porous emboli deflector for preventing cerebral emboli while maintaining cerebral blood flow during an endovascular or open surgical procedure. The device prevents the entrance of emboli of a size able to cause stroke (such as greater than 100 microns) from entering either the right or left common carotid arteries, and/or the right or left vertebral arteries by deflecting emboli downstream of these vessels. The device can be placed prior to any manipulation of the heart or aorta allowing maximal protection of the brain during the index procedure. The deflector has a low profile within the aorta which allows sheaths, catheters, or wires used in the index procedure to pass. Also disclosed are methods for insertion and removal of the deflector.

A layered earplug with pressure reducing mechanisms in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, the layered earplug comprises: a stalk comprising a tunnel that transverses the layered earplug; a plurality of discs attached to the stalk, wherein each disc of the plurality of discs includes a diameter relative to on a position of the disc on the stalk; at least one pocket located between two adjacent discs of the plurality of discs, wherein the at least one air pocket and the plurality of discs reduce sound that reaches a user's eardrum; and at least one valve located within the tunnel configured to release accumulated air pressure in a user's ear canal through the tunnel.

A placeholder for vertebrae or vertebral discs includes a tubular body, which along its jacket surface has a plurality of breakthroughs or openings for over-growth with adjacent tissue. The placeholder includes at least a second tubular body provided with a plurality of breakthroughs and openings at least partially inside the first tubular body. The first and second tubular bodies can have different cross-sectional shapes, can be are arranged inside one another by press fit or force fit or can be connected to each other via connecting pins and arranged side by side to one another in the first body.

The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional, degradable medical implant for regeneration of soft tissue comprising a plurality of volume-building components (20) and a mesh component (22) which is substantially made of monofilament or multifilament fibers, wherein each volume-building component (20) is attached to at least one point on a surface of the mesh component (22), and wherein the projected surface area of each volume-building component (20), when projected on the surface of the mesh component (22), corresponds to a maximum of one tenth of the surface area of the mesh component.

A hip implant having two distinct bodies, a neck body and a bone fixation body. The neck body is formed from a solid metal and has an interface for connecting to a femoral ball. The bone fixation body has an elongated shape and is formed as a porous structure that is inserted into an intramedullary canal of a patient.

A stent and a securely-installed artificial valve replacement device having the same, the stent being of a cylindrical structure; the top of the stent is provided with a fixed ear (60); the fixed ear (60) has a neck portion (601) connected to the top of the stent, and a head portion (602) engaged with the fixed head of the stent; the head portion (602) has a bending structure for improving the overall radial thickness; and the artificial valve replacement device is comprised of a stent and a prosthetic valve fixed on the stent. The stent with a bending structure overcomes the problem of easily disengaging from the fixed head of the stent, while not affecting the release of the stent.

Polymers have many positive properties which make them beneficial as a material used in a vascularand neurovascularimplant, such as a stent. Stents comprising polymers, methods of making stents comprising polymers, packaging for stents, and adhesives, coatings and other materials used on stents are described. Also described are stents with flared ends having bends.

An implant for insertion into a patient is provided. The implant includes a three-dimensionally printed structure of layers. Each layer comprises an infill pattern of the three-dimensionally printed structure, the infill pattern of each layer comprising a set of infill lines. The implant includes a plurality of hollow channels. The layers are arranged on top of one another such that the plurality of hollow channels are formed within the implant, wherein the walls of each channel are formed by sections of the infill lines of a plurality of layers of the printed structure of layers. At least one hollow channel extends between a first outer surface of the implant and a second outer surface of the implant. At least one hollow channel is oriented in a direction which is tilted with respect to a reference axis perpendicular to the first outer surface of the implant.