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AssigneeW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
InventorsMinh Nguyen, Timothy J. O'Neill, Aniceto Trujillo
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Bifurcated endoprosthetic devices, systems and methods are disclosed herein for treating disease of human vasculature. In various embodiments, a bifurcated endoprosthesis includes a trunk portion and a plurality of legs, where the legs are constrained such that they maintain alignment with one another. In some examples, the legs and bifurcation of an endoprosthetic device may be formed by cutting a tubular graft component along a portion of less than its entire circumference in a longitudinally central region, and then folding the tubular graft component along the uncut portion to define two legs, where the uncut portion defines the bifurcation. In some such examples, the folded tubular graft component can be coupled with a tubular trunk component to form the bifurcated endoprosthetic device.
An endoluminal device comprising:a bifurcation portion comprising a first tubular graft element having a first leg, a second leg, and a fold region situated between the first and second legs to define a bifurcation, wherein the first leg is defined between a first end of the first tubular graft element and the fold region, the second leg is defined between a second end of the first tubular graft element and the fold region, and an excess portion of the fold region between the first and second legs defines at least one tab extending away from an uncut region of the excess portion;
A multi-lumen graft device comprising:a main graft body;
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