Method and apparatus for occluding aneurysms

• US 6,506,204 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2000
• Issued: 01/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Incorporated (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: AGA Medical Corporation (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated)
• Inventors: Mazzocchi, Rudy
• Primary Examiner(s): Milano, Michael J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Baxter, Jessica R
• Application Number:
  US09/751,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20010000797A1
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 606/1, 606/159, 606/190-200, 606/213, 606/151, 295/271
• US Class Current: 606/200
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0057 Implements for plugging an opening in the wall of a hollow or tubular organ, e.g. for sealing a vessel puncture or closing a cardiac septal defect sutures A61B17/04; closing rectum or urethra near body surface A61F2/0009
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12022 Occluding by internal devices, e.g. balloons or releasable wires plugging an opening in the wall of an organ A61B17/0057; occluders for the cervical canal A61F6/146; vas deferens occluders A61F6/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12113 within an aneurysm
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12172 having a pre-set deployed three-dimensional shape methods of manufacturing A61B2017/00526
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12177 comprising additional materials, e.g. thrombogenic, having filaments, having fibers or being coated
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00867 shape memory effect for prostheses A61F2210/0014

Abstract

The present invention provides aneurysm occlusion devices 60, 160 formed from a resilient metal fabric and a method for reliably and effectively occluding aneurysms. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the aneurysm devices include a body portion 80 which is sized to be received within an aneurysm and an anchor 70 which is sized, and may also be preformed into a specific shape, to engage the lumen of a vessel having the aneurysm thereon. The aneurysm occluder 60 may also include a generally tubular central portion 62 extending between the body portion and the anchor, the central portion being sized and shaped to be received within the neck of the aneurysm. The present invention has particular advantages over prior minimally invasive techniques for occluding aneurysms in that it can both fill the aneurysm and occlude or “stent” the neck of the aneurysm in one step. It also minimizes damage to healthy vessel tissue by localizing contact with the interior of the vessel.

Claims

1. An aneurysm occlusion device for occluding an aneurysm in a vessel of a patient'"'"'s body, comprising a bulbous body portion sized to be received within the aneurysm and an anchor sized and shaped to engage an interior surface of the vessel'"'"'s wall, the body portion and the anchor being integrally formed of a resilient fabric comprising a plurality of braided strands permitting the occlusion device to be collapsed for deployment and resiliently self-expand to occlude the aneurysm, the occlusion device having a pair of clamps for securing ends of the strands defining the resilient fabric, one of said clamps being carried by the anchor, the other of said clamps being carried by the body portion and wherein the clamp carried by the body portion does not extend beyond the curvature of a surface of the body portion to provide the body portion with an atraumatic surface.

2. The aneurysm occlusion device of claim 1 wherein the fabric of the body portion further comprises a recess adjacent a top of the body portion, the recess being sized to receive the clamp carried by the body portion.

3. The aneurysm device of claim 1 wherein the clamp carried by the body portion is enclosed within an interior of the body portion.

4. The aneurysm occlusion device of claim 1 further comprising a generally tubular central portion disposed between and connecting the body portion and the anchor, the central portion being sized and shaped to be received within a neck of the aneurysm.

5. A method of forming an aneurysm occlusion device comprising the steps of

a) providing a length of a generally tubular fabric formed of a resilient metal and a mold comprising an upper recess and a lower recess;

b) clamping a first end of the length of fabric with a first clamp;

c) clamping a second end of the length of fabric with a second clamp, the second clamp being generally annular;

d) inverting the fabric by passing the first clamp through the second clamp to position the second clamp within an interior of the length of fabric;

e) deforming the fabric to conform to a molding surface of the mold; and

f) heat treating the fabric in contact with the molding surface to substantially set the fabric in its deformed state.