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Guidewire-access modular intraluminal prosthesis with connecting section

  • US 6,648,913 B1
  • Filed: 06/07/1999
  • Issued: 11/18/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An intraluminal modular prosthesis comprising:

  • a pair of tubular mating members comprising a female mating member and a male mating member adapted for in vivo assembly securely with one another, the pair of tubular mating members having an assembled configuration and a disassembled configuration;

    the female mating member comprising a main body and at least one depending member having a funnel-shaped end and a connecting segment that tapers with decreasing diameter from the main body to the funnel-shaped end along a first axial length, the funnel-shaped end flaring with increasing diameter from the connecting segment along a second axial length, the connecting segment and adjacent funnel-shaped end together forming an hourglass-shaped end;

    the male mating member comprising an hourglass-shaped end in both the disassembled configuration and the assembled configuration, the hourglass-shaped end in the assembled configuration comprising a tapered section adapted to contact the female mating member connecting segment and a flared section adapted to contact the female mating member funnel-shaped end all along the second axial length;

    the hourglass-shaped ends of the female mating member and the male mating member adapted to self-lock with one another in the assembled configuration to form a tight seal.

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