Bifurcating stent apparatus and method

Details Bifurcating stent apparatus and method Bifurcating stent apparatus and method

1989-05-22

1991-02-19

Hafer, Robert A.

Surgery

Instruments

Internal pressure applicator

606192, A61M 2900, A61F 206

Patent

active

049940716

ABSTRACT:
A bifurcating stent for insertion into a bifurcating vessel such as a blood vessel. The stent can be expanded from an insertion configuration to an implanted configuration by the application of radially outward forces against a series of interconnected wire loops that make up the stent. The preferred and disclosed method of stent implantation is accomplished with the use of a balloon catheter that expands the stent into contact with inner walls of the vessel. The balloon is then deflated and withdrawn from the vessel, leaving the stent implanted within the vessel.

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