Custom–engineered implantable biomedical textiles enable medical-device designs

Secant Medical®, Inc. blends biomaterials science with medical fabric engineering technologies to develop biomedical textile components and other structures that serve to enhance the functionality of existing or new medical devices. We collaborate with you to design and manufacture medical textiles that incorporate your device’s physical, mechanical and performance requirements to meet the anatomical and physiological needs of the intended application. Using constantly evolving advanced biomaterials, we create custom, high-quality minimally invasive implantable textile structures for cardiovascular, general surgery, neurovascular, orthopedic and regenerative medicine therapeutic applications.

Engineering expertise in biomedical textile design and development

Our proven design expertise, textile engineering technologies, and in-depth understanding of the impact of biomaterial selection on device engineering help you optimize your development process in designing your next-generation medical device. Our collaborative engineering approach to design and development allows you to innovate from concept to commercialization with precision, efficiency, quality and flexibility.

Flexibility and choice in designing with implantable biomedical structures

Secant Medical produces high-performing biomedical textile structures from a diverse range of implantable biomaterials. Polyesters, polyethylenes, polylactides, polyglycolides, polyarylretherketones, and metals such as stainless steel, Nitinol, and titanium have distinct physical, mechanical and performance properties that can be leveraged to develop extremely versatile biomedical textiles. Biomedical textiles are engineered with weaving, knitting and braiding textile technologies and can be shaped into unique planar, tubular or complex geometries with specific functional behaviors and performance characteristics.

Stringent post-process cleaning ensures that a biomedical textile component is ready for implant and meets the biocompatibility standards according to ISO 10993 testing requirements.

Strict confidentiality is guaranteed. ISO 13485:2003 registered. Secant Medical takes no ownership in product design patents arising from our confidential work with you.

Implantable fabrics enable device design

Biomedical textiles developed with Secant Medical’s proven design expertise and understanding of a biomaterial’s biologic response within the body enable flexibility in design. They can be precisely engineered to accommodate rapid integration within the body, fatigue resistance, shape memory, high-burst strength, porosity, resorbability, elasticity, compaction or low-profile properties that your device requires.

Biomedical textile structures provide the right balance of the anatomical and physiological benefits to facilitate delivery of traditional or transcatheter-based cardiovascular devices, including:

• Heart valves
  • TAVI devices
  • Mitral valve repair devices
  • Annuloplasty rings
• Vascular Grafts
  • EVAR devices

Implantable fabrics offer alternative options for neurovascular devices that provide the necessary shape-transforming and functional properties to allow for minimally invasive, low-profile delivery for various neurovascular disorders, including:

• Embolic filtration
• Aneurysm repair
• Ischemic repair
• Flow diversion

Orthopedic designs require a materials platform that allows for durable yet minimally invasive, flexible and shape-transformable devices that benefit motion preservation and the healing process. Biomedical textiles enable vastly expanded design and engineering options critical for:

• Sports Medicine
• Arthroscopic treatments
• Repair and reconstruction of 
  • Damaged joints
  • Tendons
  • Ligaments
  • Cartilage
  • Soft tissue
• Spine
• Bone grafting
• Fusion

Implantable textiles engineered with a unique combination of biomaterials and structures can meet surgical demands for ease of delivery, precise fixation, ideal physiological response, and improved patient comfort to repair/reinforce soft tissue and provide temporary organ support. Biomedical textile structures can enable device design for:

• Hernia repair
• Urethral suspension
• Visceral adhesion prevention
• Gastric restriction and endoluminal  sleeves
• Advanced wound care

Partner with Secant Medical to discover the design benefits of biomedical textile engineering

Explore how biomedical textiles can help you enable your device designs with sustainable value for the future. Download articles and white papers you or your team may find useful at http://secantmedical.com/resource-library-articles.php.