Methods and apparatus for flow restoration

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PATENT NO 8940003
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12918795

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Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.

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Ashby, Mark Philip Laguna Niguel, US 14 749
Franco, David Irvine, US 9 288
McCarthy, Thomas San Clemente, US 27 1213
Shrivastava, Sanjay Irvine, US 48 4594
Slee, Earl Howard Laguna Niguel, US 12 829
Wilder,, III Thomas Newport Beach, US 5 436

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