Medical sleeve
OwnerArthur G. Rockeyinventor
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Abstract
A method and article for medical diagnosis and/or treatment of body disorders, comprising a sleeve unit insertable in a natural body vessel to isolate material flowing into the vessel from direct contact with the interior surface of the vessel.
Claims6
An intravascular method of treating a ruptured artery comprising the steps of locating the area of the rupture, isolating the area of hemorrhage by sealing proximal and distal sites in the area, suctioning clotted blood hemorrhaged from the rupture into the artery through one of the sealed sites, implanting an artificial sleeve in the artery by introducing it intravascularly in a configuration of sufficiently small size to pass freely within the artery from a site remote from the rupture, permanently expanding the sleeve in the artery at the area of the ruptured artery wall, and allowing the expanded sleeve to remain in the artery indefinitely to conduct blood flowing through the artery and prevent loss of such blood flow through the ruptured wall area.
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