Surgical, apparatus and instruments for treating cardiovascular disease; medical apparatus and instruments for treating cardiovascular disease; artificial prosthetic vascular grafts; knitted polyester vascular grafts; stents; vascular prostheses; prosthetic vascular prostheses; surgical implants comprised of prosthetic materials; suture materials; patches for repair and/or reconstruction of internal tissue, namely, cardiovascular patches in the nature of artificial vascular grafts, pericardial patches in the nature of artificial vascular grafts, and carotid patches, namely, surgical mesh comprised primarily of prosthetic materials; implantable medical systems comprising cardiac valves for surgical prostheses, stents, prosthetic vascular grafts, vascular prostheses, prosthetic vascular grafts, prosthetic endovascular grafts and catheters; implantable medical devices, namely, implants consisting of prosthetic materials, synthetic vascular prostheses, prosthetic vascular grafts and synthetic heart valve conduits; synthetic vascular grafts; synthetic endovascular grafts; synthetic surgical graft materials; medical systems and medical devices for use in endovascular procedures; thoracic stents; synthetic thoracic stent grafts; synthetic stent grafts; stent graft systems comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; stent graft devices; stent graft systems and devices 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; delivery systems for synthetic stent graft systems and stent graft devices comprised of medical instruments for intraluminal emplacement of stents or of synthetic stent grafts, namely, stent or synthetic stent graft delivery systems; aneurysm repair systems, namely, cardiac valve replacement systems, namely, prosthetic cardiac valves; aneurysm repair devices; cardiac valves for surgical prostheses; cardiac valve replacement systems; artificial heart valves; artificial heart valve conduits; synthetic cardiac patches; synthetic vascular patches; synthetic cardiovascular patches; thoracic patches, namely, artificial thoracic grafts; tissue patches, namely, synthetic stent grafts; parts and fittings for all of the aforementioned goods