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US 11,628,079 B2Granted
Controlled deployable medical device and method of making the same
AssigneeW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
InventorsEdward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Abstract
Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.
Claims16
A stent graft delivery system, said delivery system comprising:
- a catheter;
- a stent graft including an outer surface and arranged on a proximal end portion of the catheter;
- a fiber having first and second ends, the fiber being folded to form a bend, the fiber having first and second portions extending respectively between the first and second ends of the fiber and the bend in the fiber, the first and second portions of the fiber extending circumferentially about the stent graft around outer surface of the stent graft and through the catheter;
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- a release pin extending through the catheter, the release pin releasably coupled to the fiber,
- wherein the stent graft is compressed by the first and second portion of the fiber in response to tensioning of at least one of the first and second ends of the fiber,
- wherein disengagement of the release pin from the fiber allows removal of the fiber from the system through the catheter, and
- wherein the first and second ends of the fiber extends longitudinally outside of a lumen of the stent graft.
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