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US 2011/0257676 A1Published application
Embolic filters with controlled pore size
AssigneeTyco Healthcare Group LP
InventorsThomas L. Clubb, Richard S. Kusleika, Kent D. Anderson, Marwane S. Berrada
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Abstract
A device for filtering emboli from blood flowing through a lumen defined by the walls of a vessel in a patient's body. The device has a filter element being expandable from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration. The filter element includes a material having pores, and the material having pores includes cylindrical wires having at least three different diameters arranged in a pattern of graduated diameters.
Claims30
A device for filtering emboli from blood flowing through a lumen defined by the walls of a vessel in a patient's body, comprising:
- a filter element being expandable from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration, wherein the filter element comprises a material having pores, the material having pores comprising cylindrical wires having at least three different diameters arranged in a pattern of graduated diameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.