Künstliches rohrförmiges Organ.

摘要

An artificial tubular organ composed of a tubular supporting frame (1) made of a plastic material and provided on its at least one surface with a medical prosthetic material (10). The supporting frame (1) is composed of a plurality of ring portions (2) arranged on an axis (A), and a plural pairs of connecting portions (3) extending between neighboring two ring portions (2) to connect then each other, every other pairs of the connecting portions (3) being diametrically arranged on the ring portions (2), the remaining pairs of the connecting portions (3) being arranged such that the plane containing their center lines intersects at right angles with the plane containing the center lines of a pair of diametrically arranged connecting portions (3). The medical prosthetic material (10) may be a woven fabric, a knitted fabric, a nonwoven fabric, or a combination thereof. Preferred fabric comprises absorbable macromolecular yarns (11,13) and nonabsorbable macromolecular yarns (12,14).