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US 2019/0314138 A1Published application
Methods and Apparatus for Treatment of Aneurysms Adjacent Branch Arteries
AssigneeMedtronic Vascular, Inc.
InventorsPrema Ganesan O'Brien, Jonathan Morris, David R. Erickson, Matthew Rust, Curtis Hanson, Jack Chu, Charles Thomas
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Abstract
A polymer coating/ring is employed to aid in the sealing and connection of modular elements used in body flow lumens for the exclusion and bypass of diseased regions of the flow lumen, such as where aneurysm occurs adjacent to branching blood vessels.
Claims14
1-22. (canceled)
A method of excluding a site of an aneurysm from blood flow comprising:
- delivering a stent graft in a compressed configuration to an aortic arch of a patient, the stent graft including a main body include a main body stent, a main body graft material coupled to the stent, and an aperture disposed through a surface of the main body graft material, wherein the aperture includes a neck portion extending outwardly from the main body, wherein the neck portion includes neck portion graft material extending from and integral with the main body graft material and a neck portion stent;
- deploying the stent graft at the aortic arch by radially expanding the stent graft such that at least a portion of the main body is in apposition with a wall of the aortic arch and the neck portion is aligned one of the brachiocephalic trunk, the left common carotid artery, and the left subclavian artery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.