Surgical apparatus and instruments; implantable medical devices, namely, cardiac valves for surgical prostheses, stents, artificial prosthetic vascular grafts, vascular prostheses, artificial vascular grafts, artificial endovascular grafts, and catheters; artificial vascular grafts, artificial endovascular grafts, stents and vascular prostheses; artificial vascular woven grafts; surgical implants comprising artificial material; suture materials; patches for repair and reconstruction of internal tissue, namely, cardiovascular patches, pericardial patches, and carotid patches, namely, surgical mesh comprised primarily of artificial materials; implantable medical devices, namely, implants consisting of artificial materials, synthetic vascular prostheses, artificial vascular grafts, and synthetic heart valve conduits; artificial vascular grafts; artificial endovascular grafts; surgical graft materials, namely, artificial vascular grafts, vascular prostheses for the treatment of aneurysmal or occlusive arterial disease; thoracic stents; synthetic thoracic stent grafts; synthetic stent grafts; synthetic stent graft systems comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; stent graft systems comprising more than one component comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; stent graft systems and devices comprising components of more than one stent graft comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; stent graft systems and devices comprising components of more than one type of stent graft comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; thoracic synthetic stent graft systems comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; thoracic stent graft devices; artificial systemic vascular grafts; artificial vascular straight grafts; artificial vascular abdominal grafts; artificial vascular thoracic grafts; artificial vascular branched grafts; artificial vascular pre-curved grafts; artificial vascular aortic arch grafts; artificial vascular branched arch grafts; delivery systems for synthetic stent graft systems comprised of medical instruments for intraluminal emplacement of stents or of synthetic stent grafts; aneurysm repair systems comprised of catheter delivered stent grafts, medical instruments for intraluminal emplacement of stents or stent systems or of synthetic stent grafts, namely, stent delivery systems or stent graft delivery systems or synthetic stent graft delivery systems; aneurysm repair devices; cardiac patches, namely, cardiovascular patches, pericardial patches, and carotid patches, namely, surgical mesh comprised primarily of artificial materials; vascular patches, namely, cardiovascular patches, pericardial patches, and carotid patches, namely, surgical mesh comprised primarily of artificial materials; parts and fittings for all of the aforementioned goods