An alloplastic implant for bridging osteotomy border gaps and irregularities in a mandible body. The alloplastic implant has an implant body of biocompatible, alloplastic material with a substantially J-shaped profile contour. The implant body has a vertical component with a substantially flat surface for being disposed toward a face surface of the mandible body, a lateral component that is semi-circular in profile and that mimics a contour of the inferior border of the mandible body, and a transverse component. The implant body is dimensioned to bridge border gaps and irregularities in the mandible body in a method for bridging such gaps and irregularities with the vertical component positioned to span a portion of the face surface of the mandible body and the lateral component positioned to overlie the inferior border of the mandible body. Immobilization of the implant body relative to the mandible body can be achieved by mechanical fastening.

A method of implanting a prosthetic heart valve includes selecting a prosthetic heart valve. The selected prosthetic heart valve has a nominal diameter that is greater than a native annulus diameter of a native annulus by up to forty percent. The method further comprises compressing the selected prosthetic heart valve to a radially compressed configuration in which the selected prosthetic heart valve has a first diameter that is less than the nominal diameter, positioning the selected prosthetic heart valve within the native annulus, and expanding the selected prosthetic heart valve from the radially compressed configuration to a radially expanded configuration in which the selected prosthetic heart valve has a second diameter which is less than the nominal diameter by up to ten percent and which is greater than the first diameter.

The present invention is medical device and method for treating venous valve failure or insufficiency. The device is a prosthesis that includes an engineered tissue valve supported by a frame or stent.

A color-coded bioprosthetic valve system having a valve with an annular sewing ring, and a valve holder system with a holder sutured to the ring of the valve, a post operatively connected to the holder, and an adapter sutured to the post and having a color associated with the valve model and/or size. For example, the adapter may be blue to indicate that the valve of the system is a mitral valve of a particular type and/or size. The system may also include a flex handle that is configured to engage with the adapter. The handle has a color associated with the adapter such that a user is able to visually determine that the handle color matches the valve model. For example, the handle may have a grip that is colored blue to match the blue color of the adapter. Accordingly, the color-coded system enables users to confirm easily that the correct accessories such as the sizer or flex handle are being used with the correct valve.

A patch of material is configured to be applied to human tissue. The patch includes a film comprising poly(L-lactide) and poly(#-caprolactone). The film is configured to self-deploy between a first position and a second position in response to a temperature. The film is applied to the human tissue when the patch of material is in the second position, in which the film has a planar configuration.

A dissection prosthesis system for implantation within a blood vessel includes a first prosthesis and a second prosthesis. The first prosthesis includes a first stent ring, a second stent ring, a first graft material band coupling the first stent ring to the second stent ring, a third stent ring, and a second graft material band coupling the second stent ring to the third stent ring. The second stent ring includes a plurality of openings that enable fluid flow from a lumen of the first prosthesis through the plurality of openings. The graft material bands may include band openings disposed therethrough to enable fluid flow from the lumen through the band openings. The second prosthesis includes a stent coupled to a graft material. The second prosthesis is configured to be disposed within the lumen of the first prosthesis.

Techniques and systems for distracting a spinal disc space and supporting adjacent vertebrae are provided. Trial instruments are insertable into the disc space to determine a desired disc space height and to select a corresponding implant. Implants can be also be self-distracting and the implant providing the desired disc space height can be implanted in the spinal disc space.

Methods may be provided to identify a medical implant from a plurality of medical implants to be fixed to an anatomical surface. Dimensional parameters for each of the plurality of medical implants may be provided, and dimensional parameters corresponding to the anatomical surface may be provided. The dimensional parameters for each of the plurality of medical implants may be compared with the dimensional parameters corresponding to the anatomical surface, and one of the medical implants may be selected from the plurality of medical implants based on comparing the dimensional parameters for each of the plurality of medical implants with the dimensional parameters corresponding to the anatomical surface. An identification of the medical implant selected from the plurality of medical implants may be provided through a user interface. Related devices and computer program products are also discussed.

A kit of stents and an adjustable multi-lumen stent for adjustable interventional reduction of blood flow in a blood vessel. The kit includes: a first reduction stent having in an expanded conformation at least one widened section and a narrowed section, the narrowed section defining a central lumen providing reduced fluid communication between an upstream end and a downstream end of the first reduction stent; at least one expandable dilatation stent having a tubular form insertable into and expandable in the central lumen of the first reduction stent to define an enlarged central lumen; at least one second reduction stent having a narrowed tubular section insertable into the central lumen of the first reduction stent or the central lumen of the dilatation stent to define an reduced central lumen, and having an anchoring element at its upstream end.

The embodied invention is a nipple implant made from silicon and designed to be well anchored in position by attaching it to the skin of the patient. The implant includes support arms suitable for attachment to the underside of the dermis skin layer using sutures. An outer ring provides stability to the attaching arms and adds additional surfaces that will be surrounded by scar tissue to provide additional location stability. The nipple implant includes a center receptacle that secures a skin elevating plug that provides a skin protrusion. The plug is replaceable with an additional surgery to provide a gradual increase in the skin protrusion over a period of months. The area around the implant is tattooed to provide visual coloring that matches the natural areola shape and color.