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US 2012/0259404 A1Published application
Stent
AssigneeMicroVention, Inc.
InventorsTai D. Tieu, Gregory M. Cruise, Heather Griffith, Helen Nguyen, Minh Nguyen, Ponaka Pung, Shirley Vong
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Abstract
In one embodiment according to the present invention, a stent is described having a generally cylindrical body formed from a single woven nitinol wire. The distal and proximal ends of the stent include a plurality of loops, some of which include marker members used for visualizing the position of the stent. In another embodiment, the previously described stent includes an inner flow diverting layer.
Claims15
An implant device comprising:
- a tubular, woven portion;
- a plurality of loops on a distal and proximal end of said woven portion;
- and,
- a plurality of coils positioned on at least some of said plurality of loops.
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An implant device comprising:
- a first woven layer having a first porosity and forming a generally tubular shape with a space therethrough;
- and,
- a second woven layer having a second porosity and located within said space within said tubular shape;
- wherein said second woven layer extends along a fractional length of said first woven layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.