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Kit for surgical treatment of intracorporeal lumens

  • US 6,063,112 A
  • Filed: 09/11/1998
  • Issued: 05/16/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Assembly for the treatment of an intracorporeal lumen, comprising:

  • an intraluminal prosthesis with a substantially tubular shape, said prosthesis having a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration said deployed configuration providing an internal cross section larger than an internal cross section of said retracted configuration;

    filamentous introduction means for introducing a catheter into the intracorporeal lumen;

    radial expansion means for controlling a transition of said prosthesis from said retracted configuration to said deployed configuration, said radial expansion means being arranged at a distal end of said filamentous introduction means and between said filamentous introduction means and said prosthesis in said retracted configuration, said radial expansion means being actuated at a proximal end of said filamentous introduction means; and

    an envelope which surrounds said prosthesis in said retracted configuration, wherein said envelope is gathered and secured at least at one end to said filamentous introduction means and has a flexible sheath which extends longitudinally along an axis of said prosthesis and surrounds a portion of length of said prosthesis, said flexible sheath having a contracted configuration corresponding to said retracted configuration of said prothesis and an extended configuration coming into external contact with an internal wall of the intracoporeal lumen, said flexible sheath corresponds to and limits said deployed configuration of said prosthesis, a transition of said flexible sheath from said contracted configuration to said extended configuration taking place under the effect of the transition of said prosthesis from said retracted configuration to said deployed configuration, said envelope incorporates mechanical separation means for separating said flexible sheath in said extended configuration from at least one end of said envelope.

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