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Detachable device with electrically responsive element

  • US 6,953,473 B2
  • Filed: 12/20/2001
  • Issued: 10/11/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A detachable endovascular device assembly, comprising:

  • a delivery member to deliver the detachable endovascular device assembly to an aneurysm in a body;

    a detachable endovascular device including a thermo-resistive element to deliver heat to the detachable endovascular device with passage of a first electrical current through the thermo-resistive element and the detachable endovascular device adapted to take a predetermined shape as a result of the heating; and

    a detachable joint joining the detachable endovascular device to the delivery member and adapted to separate to deploy the detachable endovascular device into the aneurysm for embolization thereof, and the detachable joint comprises an electrolytic sacrificial joint joining the detachable endovascular device and the delivery member and adapted to separate with passage of a second electrical current therethrough to deploy the detachable endovascular device into the aneurysm for embolization thereof.

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