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Compliant venous graft

  • US 8,172,746 B2
  • Filed: 02/19/2009
  • Issued: 05/08/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Method of producing a venous graft for use in replacing a section of an artery, comprising providing a segment of a vein and sheathing the segment in a generally tubular support in supportive contact with the ablumenal surface of the vein segment, the support being sufficiently flexible and radially resilient as to provide the graft with compliance properties mimicking the compliance properties of an artery, wherein said generally tubular support is chosen to be sufficiently radially resilient as to provide the venous graft with a compliance ranging from 3 to 30%/100 mm Hg.

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