Inflatable Medical Device
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1. A medical device, comprising a compartment capable of receiving and holding a substance in a liquid form and having an outer wall;
- said compartment being inflatable from a deflated state to an inflated state, such that when said compartment is in said deflated state, said outer wall is substantially impermeable to said substance, and when said compartment is in said inflated state, said substance is allowed to permeate through said outer wall out of said compartment.
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A medical device comprising a compartment capable of receiving and holding a substance in a liquid form is disclosed. The compartment is inflatable from a deflated state to an inflated state, such that when the compartment is in the deflated state, the outer wall of the membrane is substantially impermeable to the substance, and when the compartment is in the inflated state, the substance is allowed to permeate through the outer wall.
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50 Claims
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1. A medical device, comprising a compartment capable of receiving and holding a substance in a liquid form and having an outer wall;
said compartment being inflatable from a deflated state to an inflated state, such that when said compartment is in said deflated state, said outer wall is substantially impermeable to said substance, and when said compartment is in said inflated state, said substance is allowed to permeate through said outer wall out of said compartment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 47, 48, 49, 50)
- 10. A vascular prosthesis made of a material capable of hardening upon contacting a substance.
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11. A method of bypassing a blood vessel being at least partially occluded, comprising:
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providing a vascular prosthesis having said compartment disposed therein, wherein at least a part of said vascular prosthesis is made of a material capable of hardening upon contacting said substance; using said vascular prosthesis for establishing direct fluid communication between an upstream vascular location being upstream an occlusion in the blood vessel and a downstream vascular location being downstream said occlusion; inflating said compartment so as so as to release said substance to contact said vascular prosthesis, thereby hardening said vascular prosthesis; and deflating said compartment. - View Dependent Claims (13, 39, 40, 41)
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12. A method of replacing a portion of a blood vessel, comprising:
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providing a vascular prosthesis having said compartment disposed therein; excising the portion of the blood vessel, thereby creating a pair of blood vessel ends; connecting said vascular prosthesis to said pair of blood vessel ends so as to allow blood flow through said vascular prosthesis; inflating said compartment so as so as to release said substance to contact said vascular prosthesis, thereby hardening said vascular prosthesis; and deflating said compartment.
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