Device for connecting a tubular vascular prosthesis to a blood vessel and a vascular prosthesis

• US 8,118,860 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Adri Marinus Blomme
• Original Assignee: Adri Marinus Blomme
• Inventors: Blomme, Adri Marinus
• Primary Examiner(s): PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E
• Application Number:
  US11/078,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20050197664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,535 Days
• Field of Search: 606/151, 606/153, 606/232, 606/233, 606/191, 606/192, 606/194, 606/198, 623/1.25, 623/1.35, 623/1.36, 623/1.3, 623/1.11, 623/1.14, 604/174, 600/37
• US Class Current: 623/1.35
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/064 Surgical staples, i.e. penetrating the tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/11 for performing anastomosis; Buttons for anastomosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/115 Staplers for performing anastomosis in a single operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1152 applying the staples on the outside of the lumen
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00557 inflatable A61B2017/22051 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0641 having at least three legs as part of one single body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1107 for blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1135 End-to-side connections, e.g. T- or Y-connections
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2905 flexible
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/064 with special features to facilitate anastomotic coupling anastomosis of natural blood vessels A61B17/11
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/954 for placing stents or stent-grafts in a bifurcation
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/958 Inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/065 Y-shaped blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30448 using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/8486 provided on at least one of the ends
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/005 using adhesives

Abstract

Suturing elements for connecting a vascular prosthesis to a blood vessel include an internal, substantially annular body intended to be received in the blood vessel in addition to an external annular body intended to lie clampingly on an outer wall of the blood vessel at least practically at the location of the internal annular body. At least one of the two annular bodies is provided with suturing members which grip in the vessel wall so as to effect an adequate fixation of at least the internal annular body. The device for use with such suturing elements and a vascular prosthesis which is provided on at least one of its outer ends with at least a part of such suturing elements are disclosed. Different embodiments of such prostheses together form a modular vascular prosthesis system. A side vessel of a thus supported blood vessel can be preserved using branch elements.

Claims

1. A vascular prosthesis provided with branch means, for connecting a branch vessel to a vascular prosthesis arranged in a main blood vessel, said vascular prosthesis comprising a hollow tubular member, and said branch means comprising:

a internal body inside said tubular member having a flange-shaped portion adjacent an inner wall of said tubular member and comprising a rigid hollow stem and at least one rigid barb member, said stem and said at least one barb member protruding from said flange-shaped portion and penetrating through said wall of said tubular body, in which said stem comprises a hollow channel opening at a free distal side of said stem external of said wall of said tubular member and opening at a proximal side of said stem inside said tubular body; and

a disc-shaped external body registering with said flange-shaped portion at a side of said wall of said tubular member opposite said flange-shaped portion of said internal body, said disc-shaped external body having a bore, said stem extending through said bore, and having a circumferentially extending body portion which receives a free end of said at least one barb member to engage into a firm mutual connection with said internal body,

wherein, during use, a wall of said main vessel and said wall of said tubular member are jointly clamped between said flange shaped portion of said internal body and said circumferentially extending body portion of said external body, and

wherein, during use, said stem extends inside said branch vessel thereby creating an open fluid connection between said main vessel and said branch vessel through said channel.

2. The vascular prosthesis as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stem tapers down at a free distal end into a sharp pointed end portion.

3. The vascular prosthesis as claimed in claim 1, wherein said disc-shaped external body comprises a channel between a peripheral edge of said body portion and said bore to provide access to said bore from said peripheral edge.

4. The vascular prosthesis as claimed in claim 1, wherein said internal body is made of metal and said external body is made of a plastic.