摘要:
A multiple-sided medical device comprises a frame comprising wire or other resilient material and having a series of bends and interconnecting sides. The device has both a flat configuration and a second, folded configuration which a generally serpentine shape. The device is pushed from a delivery catheter into the lumen of a duct or vessel and may include one or more barbs for anchoring purposes. A full or partial covering of fabric or other flexible material such as DACRON, PTFE, or a collagen-based material such as small intestinal submucosa (SIS), may be sutured or attached to the frame to form an occlusion device, a stent graft, or an implantable, intraluminal valve such as for correcting incompetent veins in the lower legs and feet.
摘要:
An endovascular graft prosthesis for arrangement at an aneurysm positioned in the vicinity of a bifurcation in an arterial system having a main lumen and a first and a second branch lumen. The endovascular graft prosthesis includes a prosthetic device with at least one expandable tubular frame body for arrangement in the main lumen and a first and a second graft limb. The frame body is contractible into a first shape with a smaller diameter for introduction to a vascular site upstream of the aneurysm and is radially expandable into a second shape having a larger diameter and an inner lumen. The frame body is provided with a covering which extends across the inner lumen of the tubular frame body and has two apertures each of which has a diameter of less than half the larger diameter of the frame body. The first and second limbs have a cranial end for mounting at one of the apertures and a caudal end for arrangement in one of the branch lumens. The covering is a hindrance to blood flowing past the frame body except for blood flowing into the first and second graft limbs mounted at the two apertures.