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AssigneeSciMed Life Systems, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Goicoechea, Claude Mialhe, John Hudson, Andrew H. Cragg, Michael D. Dake
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The invention comprises: An introducer for delivering into the vasculature a straight or bifurcated stent or prosthesis; a method for delivering into the vasculature a straight or bifurcated stent or prosthesis; a method of treating and angeological disease using a bifurcated stent; an endoluminal stent having perpendicular hoop members, each hoop member formed of wire in a sinuous configuration, at least some of juxtaposed apices in neighboring hoops being secured to one another, such stents also forming axially aligned segments in straight stents, and segments of bifurcated stents in particular embodiments. Certain embodiments of such stents also include barbs, fabric covering and radiopaque markers.
An introducer for delivering, into the vasculature at an angeological bifurcation where a blood vessel branches into two branched vessels, a bifurcated endoluminal stent or prosthesis having a proximal portion adapted to be disposed in said blood vessel and a distal portion adapted to be disposed at least partially in one of said two branched vessels, said introducer comprising:
An introducer for delivering into the vasculature at an angeological bifurcation where a blood vessel branches into two branched vessels, an endoluminal prosthesis having a proximal stent portion and a distal stent portion, said introducer comprising:
An introducer for delivering an endoluminal stent into the vasculature at an angeological bifurcation where a blood vessel branches into two branched vessels, said introducer comprising:
A method for delivering a bifurcated endoluminal stent or prosthesis having a proximal portion and a first distal portion into the vasculature at an angeological bifurcation where a blood vessel branches into a first branched vessel and a second branched vessel, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for delivering, into the vasculature at an angeological bifurcation where a blood vessel branches into two branched vessels, an endoluminal prosthesis having a proximal stent portion, and a distal stent portion, said method comprising the steps of:
A method of treating an angeological disease at a bifurcation site where a blood vessel branches into a first branched vessel and a second branched vessel comprising the steps of:
An endoluminal stent comprising a plurality of hoops which are axially displaced in a tubular configuration along a common axis, each of said hoops
A method of making an endoluminal stent having a plurality of hoops which are axially displaced in a tubular configuration, each of said hoops being formed by a substantially complete turn of a sinuous wire with apices and having a circumference that lies in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the stent, said method comprising the steps of:
An endoluminal stent comprising a radiopaque marker disposed on at least one end of the stent.
A bifurcated stent for use in juxtaposition with an angeological bifurcation comprising a proximal stent portion adapted to be disposed within a blood vessel in juxtaposition with a bifurcation, a first distal stent portion adapted to extend across the bifurcation into one of the branched blood vessels, and a second distal stent portion adapted to allow blood to flow from the proximal portion into the other branched vessel and, at least one barb extending radially outward from any of said proximal stent portion, said first distal stent portion, and said second distal stent portion.
Apparatus for delivering an endoluminal stent or prosthesis into the vasculature comprising:
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