Blood clots filtering device

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1987-11-16

1988-11-01

Coven, Edward M.

Surgery

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128303R, 128325, 128345, 210446, 210767, A61B 1700

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047811773

ABSTRACT:
Filtering device useful for partly interrupting the inferior vena cava and for creating an efficient barrier against embolic migration; in the expanded operating condition, said device comprises a filiform body, extended at one of its ends by a plurality of diverging flexible wires, which wires are regularly circumferentially spaced apart one with respect to the other, while the free end of each one is bent outwardly to form a fastening tip, the other end of said body ending in a stabilizer which also acts as a second filter, constituted of a plurality of flexible wires, diverging around said body, which wires are regularly circumferentially spaced one with respect to the other and are offset of a certain angle with respect to the wires constituting the first filter.

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