Patent ID: 9539009
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,A61L

Claim:
1. A sutureless tissue connection device for connecting biological tissue, comprising: a first tubular device comprising a first and a second end; a second tubular device comprising a first and a second end; wherein one end of the first and second tubular devices is adapted to attach to the ends of the biological tissue, and the other ends of the first and second tubular devices is adapted to attach to donor tissue, and wherein the first and second tubular devices comprise two separate half-tubular sections each section having an interior surface with an adhesive, a temperature sensitive polymer, adhesive nanostructure, or tissue-reactive groups formed thereon that assembles having an interior surface of a first half-tubular section disposed to overlap and bond to an exterior surface of a second half-tubular section at two diametrically opposed edges to form the sutureless tissue connection device.