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Twin bifurcated stent graft

  • US 9,707,113 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2007
  • Issued: 07/18/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A stent graft system comprising:

  • a single stent graft unit having a predeployment configuration and a deployed configuration, where the single stent graft unit is one undivided piece deployed from a single deployment device, the single stent graft unit comprising;

    a single body of a biocompatible graft material defining a main lumen therethrough, a bifurcation in the tubular body at one end thereof and a first leg and a second leg extending from the bifurcation, the first leg being a long leg and the second leg being a short leg, the first and second legs having respective first and second lumens therethrough and the first and second lumens being in fluid communication with the main lumen, characterized by the first long leg comprising a side arm with a side arm lumen therethrough and the side arm lumen being in fluid communication with the first leg lumen, whereby the single stent graft unit is configured to be deployed into the vasculature of a patient with the tubular body being an aorta of the patient, the first leg configured to extend down a common iliac artery past an internal iliac artery, the second leg being directed towards a contralateral common iliac artery and the side arm on the first leg directed to the internal iliac artery of the iliac artery, wherein the single stent graft unit is delivered to and deployed in the vasculature as a single unit; and

    the stent graft system further comprising the single deployment device including a sheath having an inner lumen, wherein all portions of the single stent graft unit are disposed together within the sheath in the predeployment configuration prior to delivery of the single stent graft to the patient.

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