Surgical apparatus and instruments; medical apparatus and instruments for use in cardiovascular procedures; prosthetic vascular grafts; prosthetic endovascular grafts; stents, patches for repair and reconstruction of internal tissue, namely, cardiovascular patches, pericardial patches, carotid patches, and vascular prostheses; vascular prostheses; surgical implants comprising prosthetic materials; suture materials namely, cardiac valves for surgical prostheses, stents, prosthetic vascular grafts, vascular prostheses, prosthetic vascular grafts, prosthetic endovascular grafts, and catheters; artificial implants, namely, patches for repair and/or reconstruction of internal tissue; implantable medical systems consisting of stent grafts and stent graft delivery systems; implantable medical devices consisting of artificial materials; synthetic vascular grafts; synthetic endovascular grafts; synthetic surgical graft materials, namely, vascular prostheses for the treatment of aneurysmal or occlusive arterial disease ; medical systems, namely, cardiac valves for surgical prostheses, stents, prosthetic vascular grafts, vascular prostheses, prosthetic vascular grafts, prosthetic endovascular grafts, and catheters; medical devices, namely, implantable medical devices, namely, implants consisting of artificial materials, synthetic vascular prostheses, artificial vascular grafts, and synthetic heart valve conduits; artificial vascular grafts; medical systems and medical devices for use in endovascular procedures; thoracic stents; thoracic stent grafts; stent grafts; stent graft systems; stent graft devices; stent graft systems and devices comprising more than one component; stent graft systems and devices comprising components of more than one stent graft; stent graft systems and devices comprising components of more than one type of stent graft; thoracic stent graft systems, consisting of synthetic stent grafts, stent delivery systems, and stent graft delivery systems; thoracic stent graft devices; delivery systems for stent graft systems and stent graft devices; aneurysm repair systems consisting 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 valves for surgical prostheses; cardiac valve replacement systems consisting of artificial cardiac valves; artificial heart valves; artificial heart valve conduits; synthetic cardiac patches; synthetic vascular patches; synthetic cardiovascular patches; synthetic thoracic patches; synthetic tissue patches; parts and fittings for all of the aforementioned goods; all the foregoing excluding electrosurgical probes, electrodes and power supplies for electrodes, carrying cases and bags fitted for medical instruments for use by doctors, medical bags adapted for medical, surgical and veterinary instruments and cases fitted for medical instruments for use by doctors