| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Tissue separation method | US914204 | 1997-08-18 | US6036714A | 2000-03-14 | Albert K. Chin |
| A cannula includes a tubular body having proximal closed end and distal blunt end, at least one lumen extending the length of the body, an endoscope having a lighted, viewing end disposed in the lumen near the distal end of the body, and a transparent, tissue separating member substantially covering the distal end of the body. The tissue separating member has a blunt tip disposed from and of the end distal to the body. A method of using such a cannula separates tissue to form an elongated cavity along the course of a small blood vessel and subsequently harvesting the blood vessel. | ||||||
| 102 | Process and composition for cleaning soft tissue grafts optionally attached to bone and soft tissue and bone grafts produced thereby | US895203 | 1997-07-16 | US6024735A | 2000-02-15 | Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Jr. |
| The invention relates to compositions effective for the cleansing of mammalian soft tissue optionally attached to bones, and particularly the removal of blood deposits and bone marrow therefrom. The compsotions are composed of an aqueous solution containing as its essential ingredients a detergent having a functionality of the nature of a polyoxyethylene-23-lauryl either, a detergent having a functionality of the nature of exyethylated alkylphenol, and water, where the compositions are free from any membrane stabilizers. The present invention is also directed to a method and composition for cleaning cadaveric soft tissue optionally attached to bone to produce soft tissue grafts optionally attached to bone suitable for transplantation into a human. The present method involves removing bone marrow elements, blood deposits and any bacteria, virus or fungi contamination, from the donor bone and/or associated soft tissues. | ||||||
| 103 | Method and apparatus for laser-assisted hair transplantation | US132380 | 1998-08-11 | US6022345A | 2000-02-08 | Iain D. Miller; Karolj Nemes |
| A laser treatment method and apparatus is provided which facilitates the grafting of hairs on the skin of a living human. The methodology involves a carefully designed treatment protocol utilizing a modified optical apparatus. The apparatus is a modified erbium-based laser system, designed for optimal therapeutic selectivity. | ||||||
| 104 | Method and device for electronically controlling the beating of a heart using venous electrical stimulation of nerve fibers | US70506 | 1998-04-30 | US6006134A | 1999-12-21 | Michael R. S. Hill; Kenneth R. Jonkman |
| An electro-stimulation device includes a pair of electrodes for connection to at least one location in the body that affects or regulates the heartbeat. The electro-stimulation device both electrically arrests the heartbeat and stimulates the heartbeat. A pair of electrodes are provided for connection to at least one location in the body that affects or regulates the heartbeat. The pair of electrodes may be connected to an intravenous catheter for transvenous stimulation of the appropriate nerve. A first switch is connected between a power supply and the electrodes for selectively supplying current from the power supply to the electrodes to augment any natural stimuli to the heart and thereby stop the heart from beating. A second switch is connected between the power supply and the electrodes for selectively supplying current from the power supply to the electrodes to provide an artificial stimulus to initiate heartbeating. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a method for arresting the beat of a heart in a living body comprising the steps of connecting the pair of electrodes to at least one location in the body that affects or regulates the heartbeat and supplying an electrical current to the electrodes of sufficient amplitude and duration to arrest the heartbeat. The device may also serve to still the lungs by input to a respirator or by stimulation of the phrenic nerve during surgical procedures. | ||||||
| 105 | Method of increasing available hair grafts | US114111 | 1998-07-13 | US5997550A | 1999-12-07 | Kathleen S. Russell |
| Grafts containing intact hair follicles are transected into smaller grafts containing transected follicles. Each smaller graft is then implanted individually into incisions within a recipient area. | ||||||
| 106 | Impulsive cutter and process for hair graft preparation | US62194 | 1998-04-17 | US5984936A | 1999-11-16 | E. Antonio Mangubat; Phillip J. Timm |
| A device and method for producing a large number of micrografts of hair-bearing tissue in a reduced time are provided. The micrografts so produced are suitable for surgical transplantation and are seen to be both consistent in size and fertile with respect to the survival rate of the follicle-bearing tissue so transplanted. | ||||||
| 107 | Vein harvesting system | US79087 | 1998-05-14 | US5972010A | 1999-10-26 | Syde A. Taheri |
| The present invention comprises an apparatus and a method for harvesting veins. The apparatus includes an elongate member, a set of prongs disposed at the end of the member, a light carrying system for positioning the apparatus, and a triggering mechanism for opening and closing the prongs such that a vein can be dissected from surrounding tissue with minimal intrusiveness and minimal chance of damaging the surrounding tissue. Once the vein has been separated from the surrounding tissue by the apparatus, a vein dissector having an inflatable cover at the end is placed around the vein from the posterior and inflated and deflated to gently dissect the vein. | ||||||
| 108 | Retinal cell transplant | US322735 | 1994-10-13 | US5962027A | 1999-10-05 | Stephen E. Hughes |
| Surgical instruments, surgical techniques, grafts, cell and tissue isolation techniques, and a method for transplanting retinal cells, including photoreceptors, retinal pigment epithelium, and choroidea within their normal configuration, or all three tissues in a co-transplantation procedure are provided. | ||||||
| 109 | Protective box for sterilizing and preserving organic matter or material and assembly applying same | US608721 | 1996-02-29 | US5945075A | 1999-08-31 | Philippe Charles Chiron; Jean Collomb; Charles Picault |
| This invention relates to a protective box for the sterilization of organic material. The box includes a box body adapted to receive and immobilize a packing, a box lid fitting on the body and forming, internally, at least one protuberance for cooperation with the capsule of the packing, removable connecting means designed to bring the body and the lid relatively closer axially when the box is closed, and at least one opening provided in the body and/or the lid to place the inner volume of the closed box in relation with the ambiant medium. The invention is more particularly applicable to bone transplants. | ||||||
| 110 | Devices and methods for harvesting vascular conduits | US878653 | 1997-06-19 | US5938680A | 1999-08-17 | Richard S. Ginn |
| Devices and methods for minimally invasive harvesting of a vessel or vascular conduit, especially the saphenous vein for coronary artery bypass grafting, are disclosed. Generally, an instrument is provided which has one or more specially designed end effectors which are permanently or detachably mounted to a harvesting implement, and may also be interchangeable with each other. The end effectors have features or elements which facilitate separation of connective tissue from the vessel and/or engagement of side branches to be separated from the vessel. In various embodiments, the instrument also provides means for quickly and easily attaching and detaching the end effectors as well as means for engaging with an endoscope, if desired. The harvesting methods provide for use of the instruments through one or more minimally invasive incisions. | ||||||
| 111 | Bone dowel cutter | US773191 | 1996-12-27 | US5928238A | 1999-07-27 | Nelson Scarborough; John W. Morris |
| A device is provided for cutting dowels from a bone mass which is easily disassembled for cleaning and sterilization. The dowel cutter includes an axial mounting member having a proximal end portion configured for engagement with a drill chuck and a distal end portion configured to receive a cylindrical cutting blade, an elongated supporting shaft having a distal end portion configured to support a drill guide, and a securement mechanism formed integral with the mounting member for releasably maintaining the relative orientation of the supporting shaft and the axial mounting member during utilization. | ||||||
| 112 | Transplantation method and cutting device of a sandwich-type tissue laminate | US6029 | 1998-01-12 | US5925031A | 1999-07-20 | Po-Kang Lin |
| Disclosed is a transplantation method and cutting device of a sandwich-type tissue laminate. The transplantation method comprises: removing a tissue, e.g. a retina, encapsulating the removed tissue, holding and lifting a sandwich-type tissue laminate, transplanting the sandwich-type tissue laminate and suturing wound. The cutting device comprises: a body, a trephine, a power switch, a revolving member, a display, a detector and a disposable knife. By using the transplantation method and cutting device, the transplanted tissue can work normally, the operation becomes safer and more beneficial. The sandwich-type tissue transplantation can be made promptly and efficiently during the tissue transplantation operation. | ||||||
| 113 | Articular cartilage transplant instrument set | US797973 | 1997-02-12 | US5921987A | 1999-07-13 | Kevin R. Stone |
| The invention disclosed is a method and instrument set for repairing focal arthritic defects in a mammalian joint, especially in a human knee. The articular cartilage transplantation instrument set includes a coring device and first and second obturators. The coring device includes a cylindrical tube extending a distance along a coring axis between distal and proximal ends. A set of cutting elements or teeth are disposed at the distal end, and a gripper is at the proximal end. The outer diameters of the obturators are slightly less than the inner diameter of the tube of the coring device so that each of the obturators may be slidingly within the tube of the device with each of the respective obturator axes being substantially coaxial with the axis of the of the coring device tube. The length of the first obturator is selected so that when its rod is positioned all the way into the tube of the device, the distal end of the obturator is displaced by a distance X1 from the distal end of the device. The length of the second obturator is selected so that when the second obturator is fully positioned within the device 12, the end of the second obturator is substantially at (or extends beyond) the distal end of the device 12. | ||||||
| 114 | Devices and methods for harvesting vascular conduits | US32747 | 1998-02-27 | US5913866A | 1999-06-22 | Richard S. Ginn; Harry Leonard Green, II |
| Devices and methods for minimally invasive harvesting of a vessel or vascular conduit, especially the saphenous vein for coronary artery bypass grafting, are disclosed. Generally, an instrument is provided which has one or more specially designed end effectors which are permanently or detachably mounted to a harvesting implement, and may also be interchangeable with each other. The end effectors have features or elements which facilitate separation of connective tissue from the vessel and/or engagement of side branches to be separated from the vessel. In various embodiments, the instrument also provides means for quickly and easily attaching and detaching the end effectors as well as means for engaging with an endoscope, if desired. The harvesting methods provide for use of the instruments through one or more minimally invasive incisions. | ||||||
| 115 | Methods and devices for harvesting blood vessels with balloons | US139690 | 1998-08-25 | US5902316A | 1999-05-11 | Kenneth H. Mollenauer |
| Methods and devices for harvesting blood vessels using balloons to hold the blood vessel and to dissect and mobilize the blood vessel from surrounding tissue. A small balloon catheter is inserted into the blood vessel lumen to and inflated in order to hold the blood vessel, and an everting balloon dissector is everted over the blood vessel. Eversion of the balloon dissector over the blood vessel pushing surrounding body tissue away from the blood vessel. | ||||||
| 116 | Optical tissue dissector/retractor | US919975 | 1997-08-28 | US5902315A | 1999-05-11 | Brian R. DuBois |
| A surgical device for dissecting and retracting tissue includes a scope holder for holding an endoscope therein and a transparent concave head connected to the scope holder. The concave head defines a working space therein. A fluid carrying system is operatively connected to and communicates with the concave head and the working space for clearing particulate from the working space. | ||||||
| 117 | Multifocal ophthalmic lens | US811985 | 1997-03-05 | US5877839A | 1999-03-02 | Valdemar Portney |
| An improved opthalmic lens is disclosed which has a plurality of alternating power zones with a continuously varying power within each zone, as well as in transition from one zone to another. In other words, a plurality of concentric zones (at least two) are provided in which the variation from far to near vision correction is continuous, i.e., from near correction focal power to far correction focal power, then back to near, and again back to far, or vice versa. This change is continuous (progressive), without any abrupt correction changes, or "edges".Two versions of the invention are disclosed. In the first version continuous, alternating power variation is accomplished by a continuously changing curvature of the lens posterior surface, thereby altering the angle of impact of light rays on the eye.In the second version continuous, alternating power variation is accomplished by creating non-homogeneous surface characteristics having refractive material indexes which continuously vary in the lens radial direction (out from the optical axis). | ||||||
| 118 | Methods and devices for blood vessel harvesting | US798048 | 1997-02-10 | US5876413A | 1999-03-02 | Thomas J. Fogarty; George D. Hermann; Allan R. Will |
| Methods and devices for harvesting veins or other elongate structures from the body are disclosed. The disclosed methods and devices allow vein harvesting using endoscopic procedures. A working space is created over a vein using standard endoscopic procedures and a side-hooked wire is inserted into the working space and twisted to insert the side-hook under the vein. The wire is then pulled or drawn along the vein to separate the vein from the surrounding tissue. In an alternative embodiment, vein separation is accomplished by threading a soft rubber tube under the vein, and then pulling the tube along the vein. In other embodiments, the working space is created with everting balloons. | ||||||
| 119 | Surgical instrument for facilitating the detachment of an artery and the like | US835675 | 1997-04-10 | US5871496A | 1999-02-16 | Richard S. Ginn; Hani Shennib; Charles S. Taylor; Ivan Sepetka |
| A surgical instrument is configured to aid in performing a procedure of detaching an internal mammary artery (IMA) and the like, from the connecting tissues and side branch vessels which surround the artery in its native location, wherein the detaching procedure is preliminary to the performing of a coronary artery bypass grafting procedure and wherein the IMA is detached via a minimally invasive thoracotomy. To this end, an elongated slender rod includes a handle at its proximal end and an artery engaging loop, arc, fork configuration, or hook at its distal working end. Embodiments may incorporate electrosurgical capability or electrical insulation. A surgeon thus has means for harvesting an intact and undamaged graft vessel from its native location through a minimally invasive incision with enhanced speed, visibility, and freedom of motion. | ||||||
| 120 | Endoscope and method for vein removal | US585410 | 1996-01-11 | USRE36043E | 1999-01-12 | David R. Knighton |
| An endoscope for use in harvesting blood vessels includes a scope body of the type having a lumen extending longitudinally therethrough which itself has a proximal and a distal end. The endoscope includes means for viewing an area adjacent the distal end of the lumen, and the lumen has a lateral dimension of a size sufficient to accommodate the blood vessel being harvested and at least one tool for use in harvesting the blood vessel. A first end of the blood vessel section to be harvested is exposed through an incision in the patient's body. A dissecting tool and a gripping tool are inserted through the lumen of the endoscope and used to dissect the blood vessel away from the surrounding connective tissue of the patient's body, using the viewing means of the endoscope to view this dissection in process within the patient's body. Additional tools are provided for use through the lumen of the endoscope to remove body fluids and coagulate bleeding tissue, and to sever side branches from the blood vessel to be harvested, as well as to sever a distal end of the blood vessel to be harvested when a desired length of blood vessel has been dissected. Only a single small incision in the patient's body is necessary to harvest a relatively long length of blood vessel in a precise and controlled manner through endoscopic vision using the inventive endoscope and its related tools..Iadd.The questions raised in reexamination request No. 90/004,301, filed Jul. 12, 1996, have been considered and the results thereof are reflected in this reissue patent which constitutes the reexamination certificate required by 35 U.S.C. 307 as provided in 37 CFR 1.570(e). .Iaddend. | ||||||
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