Surgical apparatus and instruments for treating cardiovascular disease; medical apparatus and instruments for treating cardiovascular disease; prosthetic vascular grafts; prosthetic endovascular grafts; stents and vascular prostheses; prosthetic vascular woven grafts; surgical implants comprising prosthetic materials; suture materials; cardiovascular, pericardial, and carotid patches in the nature of surgical meshes comprised primarily of prosthetic materials for repair and reconstruction of internal tissue; implantable medical systems, namely, 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; prosthetic vascular grafts; prosthetic endovascular grafts; surgical graft materials, namely, prosthetic vascular grafts, and vascular prostheses for the treatment of aneurysmal or occlusive arterial disease; medical devices for use in endovascular procedures, namely, medical devices for use in treating cardiovascular 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; thoracic synthetic stent graft systems comprised of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; medical devices for intraluminal emplacement of thoracic stent grafts; prosthetic systemic vascular grafts; prosthetic vascular straight grafts; prosthetic vascular abdominal grafts; prosthetic vascular thoracic grafts; prosthetic vascular branched grafts; prosthetic vascular pre-curved grafts; prosthetic vascular aortic arch grafts; prosthetic 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, namely, stent or synthetic stent graft delivery systems; aneurysm repair systems comprised of catheter-delivered synthetic stent grafts and 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; cardiac valves for surgical prostheses; cardiac valve replacement systems, namely, prosthetic cardiac valves; heart valves, namely, prosthetic heart valves; heart valve conduits, namely, catheters for implanting heart valves; structural parts and fittings for all of the aforementioned goods