Intravascular folded tubular endoprosthesis
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Abstract
A bifurcated or straight intravascular folded tubular member is deliverable percutaneously or by small cutdown to the site of a vascular lesion. Its inserted state has a smaller nondeployed diameter and a shorter nondeployed length. The intravascular tubular member has a folded tubular section that is unfolded following insertion into the blood vessel. The length of the intravascular folded tubular member is sized in situ to the length of the vessel lesion without error associated with diagnostic estimation of lesion length. The folded tubular member is self-expandable or balloon-expandable to a larger deployed diameter following delivery to the lesion site. An attachment anchor can be positioned at the inlet or outlet ends of the intravascular folded tubular member to prevent leakage between the tubular member and the native vessel lumen and to prevent migration of the tubular member. The attachment anchor has a short axial length to provide a more focal line of attachment to the vessel wall. Such attachment is valuable in attaching to a short aortic neck in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm. The attachment anchor can have barbs which are held in a protected conformation during insertion of the tubular member and are released upon deployment of the attachment anchor. The intravascular tubular member can be formed of woven multifilament polymeric strands with metallic strands interwoven along with them. Double weaving is incorporated to prevent leakage at crossover points.
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51 Claims
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1-34. -34. (canceled)
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35. A wall structure for a cylindrical member that is deliverable to the site of a lesion within a tubular vessel of the body, the cylindrical member having a nondeployed state and capable of undergoing an expansion deformation to a deployed state with a larger diameter, said wall structure comprised of;
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A. one or more hinges and one or more struts, B. said hinges being adapted to bend substantially only in the direction of the hinge width, C. said struts having a strut width that is greater than a strut radial dimension wherein said strut is unable to bend substantially in the direction of the strut width and is adapted to flex elastically and not substantially plastically in the radial direction. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A cylindrical wall structure for use within a tubular vessel of the body, deliverable to a site that requires a supporting structure, said cylindrical wall structure having the ability to exert an expansion force outward that is transmitted toward the tubular vessel wall, said cylindrical wall structure further having an independent ability to tolerate a temporarily applied external crush force by becoming oval in shape and then returning back to its approximate initial shape upon removal of the external force, said tubular wall structure comprised of;
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A. hinges and struts that are interconnected within said cylindrical wall structure, B. said struts having a width enough greater than the width of said hinges such that the struts do not contribute significantly to the expansion force that is predominantly determined by said hinges, C. said hinges having a radial dimension enough greater than the radial dimension of said struts such that the hinges do not contribute significantly to the elastic crush resistance force that is predominantly determined by said struts.
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41. The method of use for a cylindrical member that is deliverable to the site of a lesion within a tubular vessel of the body, the cylindrical member having a nondeployed state and capable of undergoing an expansion deformation to a deployed state of larger diameter, the method comprising;
- providing a wall structure with hinges and struts, said hinges being adapted to be unable to bend substantially in the radial direction;
said struts being adapted to be substantially unbendable in the direction of the strut width and adapted to flex elastically and not significantly plastically in the radial direction;
whereby said cylindrical member is thereby adapted to reversibly form an oval shape during a crush deformation. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
- providing a wall structure with hinges and struts, said hinges being adapted to be unable to bend substantially in the radial direction;
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