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Methods of making and using coiled sheet graft for single and bifurcated lumens

  • US 6,048,360 A
  • Filed: 03/25/1998
  • Issued: 04/11/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of making a graft stent for treating a section of a body lumen, the method comprising:

  • providing a coiled sheet of a resilient material, the coiled sheet having a surface, a contracted state of reduced diameter and an expanded state of enlarged diameter, the coiled sheet forming a series of overlapping turns in the contracted state; and

    affixing a biocompatible graft material to a portion of the surface of the coiled sheet, the graft material being wound within the overlapping turns of the coiled sheet when the coiled sheet is wound to its contracted state.

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