Electric endovascular implant depolyment system
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1. A system for releasing a graft within a lumen, said system comprising:
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a delivery catheter adapted to be placed within the lumen;
an attachment device releasably attaching the graft to the delivery catheter; and
a release source for releasing the attachment device, the release source including one or more resistive wire elements and conducting wires;
wherein the release source is electrical and facilitates near contemporaneous release of the graft from the attachment device; and
the delivery catheter further comprising an inner catheter configured within the graft, the inner catheter including a conducting wire lumen to receive the conducting wires and at least one opening in communication with each end of each resistive wire element, whereby each conducting wire exits the conducting wire lumen at a different opening to engage one of each resistive wire element, thereby forming one or more resistive wire loops.
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Abstract
A system for releasing a graft within vasculature that incorporates graft bindings severed by current-generated heat in a resistive wire element. In one aspect, the graft is held by bindings threaded through a resistive wire loop formed between conducting wires attached to opposite ends of a high resistive wire element. When an external current source is applied to the conducting wires, heat generated in the resistive wire element causes the bindings to sever, thereby allowing the graft to be released within vasculature.
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1. A system for releasing a graft within a lumen, said system comprising:
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a graft;
a delivery catheter adapted to be placed within the lumen;
an attachment device releasably attaching the graft to the delivery catheter; and
a release source for releasing the attachment device, the release source including one or more resistive wire elements and conducting wires;
wherein the release source is electrical and facilitates near contemporaneous release of the graft from the attachment device; and
the delivery catheter further comprising an inner catheter configured within the graft, the inner catheter including a conducting wire lumen to receive the conducting wires and at least one opening in communication with each end of each resistive wire element, whereby each conducting wire exits the conducting wire lumen at a different opening to engage one of each resistive wire element, thereby forming one or more resistive wire loops. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
the graft having a superior end and inferior end;
the inner catheter having a conducting wire lumen having two sets of two openings each, one inferior set and one superior set;
the attachment device including a superior binding and an inferior binding; and
the release source including a superior resistive wire element and an inferior resistive wire element;
wherein each conducting wire exits a different inferior opening in the conducting wire lumen, engages the inferior resistive wire element and reenters the same inferior opening, thereby forming an inferior resistive wire loop and each conducting wire further exits a different superior opening in the conducting wire lumen, engages the superior resistive wire element and reenters the same superior opening, thereby forming a superior resistive wire loop.
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11. The system of claim 10, the conducting wires providing a common path between the switchable external voltage and the superior resisitive wire loop and inferior resistive wire loop, whereby the switchable external voltage is applied to the superior resistive wire loop and inferior resistive wire loop simultaneously.
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12. The system of claim 10, the conducting wires providing separate paths between the switchable external voltage and the superior resistive wire loop and inferior resistive wire loop, whereby the switchable external voltage can be applied to the superior resistive wire loop and inferior resistive wire loop in a non-simultaneous manner.
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13. The system of claim 10, the conducting wire lumen having more than two sets of openings, the attachment device including more than two bindings, and the release source having more than two resistive wire elements, thereby forming more than two resistive wire loops.
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14. The system of claim 1, wherein the graft further comprises one or more attachment systems secured to the graft, each attachment system having a first configuration and a second configuration, the first configuration compressed from the second configuration.
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15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a shield placed between the graft and the attachment device.
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16. A method for releasing a graft within a lumen using a delivery catheter being releasably attached to the graft by an attachment device in combination with an electrical release source, the release source including one or more resistive wire elements and conducting wires and the delivery catheter including an inner catheter with a conducting wire lumen to receive the conducting wires and at least one opening in communication with each end of each resistive wire element, comprising:
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configuring each conducting wire to exit the conducting wire lumen at a different opening to engage one end of each resistive wire element thereby forming one or more resistive wire loops;
placing the graft and delivery catheter within vasculature of a patient; and
activating the release source to automatically disengage the attachment device from the graft. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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