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Implantable braided stroke preventing device and method of manufacturing

  • US 20040024416A1
  • Filed: 12/20/2002
  • Published: 02/05/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An implantable deflecting device for positioning in the vicinity of an arterial bifurcation for causing embolic material flowing toward a first branch of the bifurcation to be deflected into the second branch of the same bifurcation, comprising a deflecting filtering element suitable to deflect the flow of embolic material flowing toward said second branch, while filtering the blood flowing toward said first branch, said device comprising a braided tubular body having a contracted state with a first diameter, and an expanded state having a second diameter greater than said first diameter.

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