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Aortic catheter with flow divider and methods for preventing cerebral embolization

  • US 6,371,935 B1
  • Filed: 08/20/1999
  • Issued: 04/16/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A fluid flow divider for dividing fluid flow within a body lumen of a patient into at least two channels, the fluid flow divider comprising a first end and a second end, a top surface and a bottom surface, and the flow divider having an undeployed state wherein the flow divider is collapsed to a small diameter and a deployed state wherein the flow divider is expanded to divide fluid flow through the body lumen into a first flow channel and at second flow channel, wherein the expanded flow divider is impermeable to blood and to emboli.

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