Implantable device and delivery system to reestablish or maintai

Details Implantable device and delivery system to reestablish or maintai Implantable device and delivery system to reestablish or maintai

1997-04-10

2000-05-09

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Internal pressure applicator

606194, A61M 2900

Patent

active

060598085

ABSTRACT:
The subject of the present invention is an implantable device intended to reestablish or maintain the normal passage cross section of a bodily canal, of the type comprising an elongate framework which can expand radially between a first, contracted state of reduced diameter and a second, expanded state in which it has a diameter substantially equal to the natural diameter of said bodily canal and wherein said framework has, when contracted, at least one element consisting of a wire wound on itself, preferably with substantially constant pitch, along a substantially circular or helical directrix line.

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