Vascular repair devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9655712-B2
Application number	US-201615040460-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2016
Priority date	Sep 3, 2003
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A vascular repair device includes a tubular graft body and a structural framework having at least two stents. A first stent of the stents is connected to the tubular graft body along an entirety of the first stent and a second of the stents includes a periodically changing shape that defines proximal apices having a first radii of curvature and distal apices having a second radii of curvature that is less than the first radii of curvature. The second stent is connected to the tubular graft body at the distal apices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vascular repair device comprising:
a) a tubular graft body having a proximal end, a distal end, an interior surface and a longitudinal axis; and
b) a structural framework having at least two stents, wherein:
i) a first stent of the stents having first proximal apices and first apices each adjacent pair of first proximal apices and first distal apices defined by a single strut connecting respective adjacent ones of the first proximal and first distal apices, the first stent connected to the proximal end of the tubular graft body; and
ii) a second stent of the stents having second proximal apices and second distal apices, each adjacent pair of second proximal apices and second distal apices defined by a single strut, the second proximal apices having a first radius of curvature and second distal apices having a second radius of curvature that is less than the first radius of curvature, wherein the second stent is a bare stent connected to the proximal end of the tubular graft body at the second distal apices of the second stent and the second distal apices of the second stent nested between the struts and the first proximal apices of the first stent.

2. The vascular repair device of claim 1 , wherein the first stent is connected to the interior surface of the tubular graft body.

3. The vascular repair device of claim 1 , wherein the distal apices of the second stent are connected to the interior of the tubular graft body.

4. The vascular repair device of claim 1 , wherein the first stent is connected to the interior surface of the tubular graft body and the distal apices of the second stent are connected to the interior of the tubular graft body.

5. The vascular repair device of claim 1 , wherein the second proximal apices of the second stent are attached to the tubular graft body proximal to the proximal end of the tubular graft body.

6. The vascular repair device of claim 5 , wherein two additional stents are connected to the interior of the graft body along their entirety.

7. The vascular repair device of claim 1 , further including at least one additional stent connected to the tubular graft body distal to the first stent.

8. The vascular repair device of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the additional stents is connected to the interior of the tubular graft body along the entirety of the at least one additional stent.

9. The vascular repair device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one additional stent is connected to the distal end of the tubular graft body.

10. The vascular repair device of claim 9 , further including a curved longitudinal support member on one side of a plane parallel to and bisecting the longitudinal axis of the tubular graft body, the longitudinal support member being substantially reverse-mirror symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal axis and having substantially asymptotic ends, and being connected to the tubular graft body independent of the structural framework.

11. The vascular repair device of claim 7 , wherein two additional stents are connected to the distal end of the tubular graft body.

12. The vascular repair device of claim 11 , wherein a total number of proximal apices of one of the two additional stents is one more than a total number of proximal apices of the other of the two additional stents.

Assignees

• Bolton Medical Inc

Inventors

• Berra Humberto A
• Arbefeuille Samuel
• Ouellette Gerry

Classifications

• A61F2/9517

  handle assemblies therefor · CPC title

• A61F2002/825

  having longitudinal struts · CPC title

• A61F2230/0054

  V-shaped · CPC title

• A61F2002/9665

  with additional retaining means · CPC title

• A61F2/95

  Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts · CPC title