Aneurysm neck obstruction device

• US 20030083676A1
• Filed: 08/15/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings, LLC (Stryker Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings, LLC (Stryker Corporation)
• Inventors: Wallace, Michael P.
• Application Number:
  US10/219,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20030083676A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12022 Occluding by internal devices, e.g. balloons or releasable wires plugging an opening in the wall of an organ A61B17/0057; occluders for the cervical canal A61F6/146; vas deferens occluders A61F6/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12113 within an aneurysm
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12172 having a pre-set deployed three-dimensional shape methods of manufacturing A61B2017/00526
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1205 Introduction devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/12063 electrolytically detachable
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/12068 detachable by heat

Abstract

An implantable medical device for at least partially closing a portion of a vascular aneurysm is disclosed. The treatment device includes a neck bridge having a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration. The treatment device also includes an actuation mechanism operably attached to the neck bridge and configured to covert the neck bridge between the delivery configuration, wherein the actuation mechanism has an elongated form, and the deployed configuration, wherein the actuation mechanism has a constricted form.

Claims

1. An aneurysm treatment device for at least partially closing a portion of a vascular aneurysm, comprising:

a neck bridge having a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration;

an actuation mechanism operably attached to the neck bridge and configured to convert the neck bridge between the delivery configuration, wherein the actuation mechanism has an elongated form, and the deployed configuration, wherein the actuation mechanism has a constricted form.