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 textile material to utilize. 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
  • Self-expanding nitinol components
  • Sheaths
  • Specialty sutures
  • Vascular prostheses

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
  • 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
  • Hybrids
  • Polyester
  • Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
  • Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)
  • Resorbables
  • Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
Medical Textile-forming Technologies
  • Braiding: Providing unrivaled variability of physical and mechanical properties, braided textiles offer controlled porosity, flexibility, high radial expansion, and strength.

  • 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.

  • Weaving: Offering the most design flexibility of all textile-forming technologies, woven textiles deliver dimensional stability, low porosity, and strength.

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