US Patent No: 6,176,875
Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000
Limited expansion endoluminal prostheses and methods for their use
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Jan 23, 2001
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Feb 25, 1998
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09/030,719
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Abstract
The present invention provides controlled expansion endoluminal prostheses and methods for their deployment and expansion. The present stent-grafts generally comprise a radially expansible tubular frame and a plastically expansible liner on the frame. Either the frame or the liner includes a reinforcing element which limits expansion of the stent-graft at a predetermined expanded size. In some embodiments, the reinforcing element restrains the frame, for example, by limiting the circumferential diagonals of perforations on a perforate frame structure. Generally, however, the reinforcing element is included in the liner as circumferentially oriented yarn. A particularly advantageous liner includes composite circumferential yarns having inexpansible fibers wrapped around an expansible fiber, such as a partially oriented yarn, PTFE, or the like.
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| 5,527,353 Implantable tubular prosthesis | 101 | 1993 | |
| 5,496,364 Self-supporting woven vascular graft | 63 | 1994 | |
| 5,556,426 PTFE implantable tubular prostheses with external coil support | 82 | 1994 | |
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| 5,443,499 Radially expandable tubular prosthesis | 152 | 1994 | |
| * 6,019,786 Braided composite prosthesis | 90 | 1997 | |
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| 5,443,500 Intravascular stent | 469 | 1994 | |
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| * 5,413,598 Vascular graft | 144 | 1994 | |
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| 5,456,713 Expandable transluminal graft prosthesis for repairs of aneurysm and method for implanting | 350 | 1993 | |
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| 5,609,605 Combination arterial stent | 185 | 1995 | |
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| 5,123,917 Expandable intraluminal vascular graft | 664 | 1990 | |
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| * 5,843,158 Limited expansion endoluminal prostheses and methods for their use | 335 | 1996 | |
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| 5,617,878 Stent and method for treatment of aortic occlusive disease | 317 | 1996 | |
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| 5,545,209 Controlled deployment of a medical device | 283 | 1994 | |
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| 4,731,073 Arterial graft prosthesis | 159 | 1984 | |
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| 5,591,199 Curable fiber composite stent and delivery system | 180 | 1995 | |
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| 5,163,952 Expandable polymeric stent with memory and delivery apparatus and method | 598 | 1990 | |
| * 5,330,500 Self-expanding endovascular stent with silicone coating | 544 | 1992 | |