Cardiovascular
Medical Device Textile Solutions
Harness the versatility of implantable medical textile design to enhance minimally invasive heart procedures.
The first step in developing a cardiovascular device is identifying the most appropriate medical textile material for design and development. It’s a challenge Secant Group tackles immediately with every medical device manufacturer – whether you’re a startup or global manufacturer.
Textile components for cardiovascular devices can be applied in the following ways:
- As flexible scaffolds for tissue in-growth and implant integration
- As conduits or barriers for blood flow and leakage prevention
- To join materials and secure implants in the body
A solutions-focused approach
With access to proactively built and readily available fabric samples, our device engineers can shorten lead times, limit development costs, and deliver a prototype in just a few weeks. In turn, you gain more customization and fabric modification throughout the product development process to meet new and emerging market needs.
Structures
- Low-profile fabrics
- Near-net fabrics
- Occlusion fabrics
- Sealing fabrics
- Shape-memory components
- Sheathes
- Specialty sutures
- Vascular prostheses
Challenges Textiles Solve
- 3D dimensionality
- Absorption
- Adsorption
- Compactibility
- Compressibility
- Conformability
- Covering/protection (e.g., cushioning)
- Filtration
- Flexibility
- High density
- High-surface area
- Loft
- Low profile
- Permeability
- Protection
- Sealing
- Stretch and recovery
- Suturability
- Thickness
- Thinness
- Tissue in-growth
Explore Cardiovascular Textile Solutions
Whether you’re creating a new device or enhancing a predicate device, manufacturers can count on Secant Group’s broad portfolio of advanced textile solutions and services to deliver high quality and specificity for cardiovascular devices.
Heart Valve Solutions
Aortic, tricuspid, mitral, and pulmonary valves
- Valve repair components (annuloplasty rings, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER))
- Valve replacement valve components
Structural Heart Solutions
- Atrial septal defect (ASD)/patent foramen ovale (PFO) components
- Cardiac patches
- Embolic protection components
- Heart valve skirts for tissue integration and sealing
- Left atrial appendage (LAA) closure components
Vascular Graft Solutions
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) procedures
- Endovascular stent graft components
- Bypass graft components
Materials
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
- Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
- Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
- Resorbables
- Hybrids
Medical Textile-forming Technologies
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Braiding: Providing unrivaled variability of physical and mechanical properties, braided textiles offer controlled porosity, flexibility, high radial expansion, and strength.
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Knitting: Lightweight, highly conformable, and able to provide bulk, knit textiles enable versatile geometric structures with controlled elasticity and thickness, consistent pore size and shape, and elongation.
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Weaving: Offering the most design flexibility of all textile-forming technologies, woven textiles deliver dimensional stability, low porosity, and strength.
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