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Triaxially-braided fabric prosthesis

  • US 4,610,688 A
  • Filed: 04/04/1983
  • Issued: 09/09/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A prosthesis for use in repairing or replacing ligament or tendon tissue, said prosthesis having first and second opposed end portions adapted to be attached with the prosthesis in tension to the body of a patient, with said two end portions defining between them the longitudinal direction of the prosthesis, and said prosthesis comprising a triaxially-braided fabric element containing interwoven first, second and third sets of fibers, with the fibers of said first set being elastic and oriented in substantially said longitudinal direction of the prosthesis, the fibers of said second and third sets being oriented at substantially the same acute braiding angle with respect to the fibers of said first set, the fibers of said first set having greater elasticity than the fibers of both of said second and third sets, the fibers of said second and third sets having greater yield strength and Young'"'"'s modulus than the fibers of said first set, and said prosthesis exhibiting a tensile break point of at least about 75 kg.

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