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Prosthesis (i.e., Artificial Body Members), Parts Thereof, Or Aids And Accessories Therefor > Arterial Prosthesis (i.e., Blood Vessel) > Stent Combined With Surgical Delivery System (e.g., Surgical Tools, Delivery Sheath, Etc.) > Expandable Stent With Constraining Means Expandable Stent With Constraining MeansExpandable Stent With Constraining Means patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/14/06 - 20060282155 - Laparoscopic vascular access A laparoscopic vascular conduit arrangement has an elongate graft tube (1, 10) which is placed through a body cavity into a body vessel using a laparoscopic port sheath (70) with a distal valve (73) and a second sheath (80) with distal valve (86, 87). The graft tube (1, 10) extends ... 11/23/06 - 20060265047 - Stent delivery system with radially stabilized catheter A catheter for a medical apparatus comprising: an inner catheter (100) having a distal end and a proximal end; and a sheath (202) of polymer material, having a distal end and a proximal end, disposed around at least a portion of the inner catheter, said sheath being retractable in a ... 11/16/06 - 20060259125 - System and method for forming composite stent-graft assembly in-situ A stent-graft system includes a graft member and separate coupling stent that are adapted to be delivered separately to a location within a patient's body where they are coupled to form a stent-graft composite in-situ. The system thus allows for serial introduction of the graft member and coupling stent through ... 11/16/06 - 20060259124 - Stent delivery device A stent delivery device includes a distal-side tube having a guide wire lumen; a proximal-side tube whose distal portion is fixed to a proximal portion of the distal-side tube; a cylindrical member which encloses a distal side of the distal-side tube and is slidable toward a proximal end of the ... 11/16/06 - 20060259123 - Lining for bodily lumen A covered self-expanding stent (114, 130, 132) with a length of 200 mm or more can be restrained against axial movement with a pusher (40) within the lumen of the stent that carries a spiral of wire (48) that provides protrusions that are accommodated within a luminal covering layer (24) ... 11/16/06 - 20060259122 - Charged cyclodextrin derivatives and their use in plant cell and tissue culture growth media A prosthesis adapted for inter-luminal placement by endovascular deployment for the treatment of vascular dissection, the prosthesis has a self expanding stents (38) connected together to define an elongate lumen wall engaging surface. At least one of the stents has a bio-compatible graft material cover (36) to define a covered ... 11/02/06 - 20060247757 - Delivery system comprising a self expanding stent A delivery system is equipped with a self expanding stent for implantation into a blood vessel, in particular in the region of the aortic arch. The stent has a hollow cylindrical body which is radially compressed for implantation. A pull-back sheath which surrounds the stent and which radially compresses it ... 10/12/06 - 20060229703 - Staged deployment endograft An apparatus is provided for deploying an endograft that maintains a fluid channel throughout deployment. A method for deploying an endograft maintaining a fluid channel through the deployment is also provided. ... 10/05/06 - 20060224227 - Delivery system and method for expandable intracorporeal device A catheter for delivery of an expandable intracorporeal device and method of using the catheter. The catheter may have an elongate shaft with a proximal section, distal section, proximal end and distal end. The distal section has a radially expandable shear barrier which is at least partially radially constrained by ... 08/24/06 - 20060190071 - Endoluminal expansion system An endoprosthesis expansion system having, in combination, a delivery component such as a length of catheter tubing having at its distal end an intermediate sheath component, and an inner tube within the full length of the delivery catheter and intermediate sheath component. The inner tube has a protrusion affixed to ... 08/24/06 - 20060190070 - Rail stent and methods of use Devices, systems and methods are provided for stenting body lumens. In particular, stents are provided which are advanceable directly over a guidewire and expandable within a target location of a body lumen by retraction of the guidewire and/or by releasing constraining element(s) disposed around at least a portion of the ... 06/29/06 - 20060142839 - External support device A medical device inserted into a blood vessel through a tube. The medical device comprises an external support device applied around a portion of the medical device in proximity to the tube. ... 06/29/06 - 20060142838 - Medical devices including metallic films and methods for loading and deploying same A method of handling an endoprosthesis includes providing an endoprosthesis having a deposited metal film with a thickness of about 50 microns or less and reducing the diameter of the endoprosthesis by sequentially collapsing different portions of the prosthesis. The collapsed endoprosthesis can be positioned with a lumen of an ... 05/25/06 - 20060111769 - Bi-axial oriented sheath A sheath and method of forming is disclosed for a bi-axial oriented made of high molecular weight polymers. The high molecular weight polymers provide a bi-axial oriented sheath with a high hoop stress and a thin wall thickness. A device and method of use is also disclosed for a device ... 05/11/06 - 20060100689 - Stent crimper with slit sheath The invention provides a system and method for crimping and sheathing a stent. The system comprises a radial compression device including a plurality of crimping members. Some or all of the crimping members include a contoured depression that receives and holds an inner sheath segment while the device moves between ... 05/11/06 - 20060100688 - Prosthesis anchoring and deploying device A system for intraluminally delivering and deploying stents and other prostheses includes an outer catheter, an inner catheter movable axially relative to the outer catheter, and an anchoring device mounted to a distal end region of the inner catheter. The anchoring device includes one or more control features that interact ... 04/27/06 - 20060089704 - Vascular graft and deployment system A vascular graft includes a main portion and a branch portion that is coupled to the main portion by an articulating joint. The vascular graft may be inserted into the thoracic aorta with the branch portion positioned within a branch vessel and the main portion positioned within the thoracic aorta. ... 03/30/06 - 20060069424 - Self-constrained segmented stents and methods for their deployment A self-expanding stent includes a plurality of segments having a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. Preferably, the segments are unconnected to each other in at least the expanded configuration. The segments include restraining structures that temporarily restrain them from expansion until activated. This allows the user to position the ... 02/16/06 - 20060036310 - Method to simultaneously load and cover self expanding stents A medical device may be secured to a medical device delivery apparatus by providing a wrapped medical device, the wrapped medical device comprising a medical device with a polymeric sheet disposed thereabout, compressing the wrapped medical device and affixing at least one opposing edge of the polymeric sheet to a ... 02/09/06 - 20060030925 - Flexible resheathable stent design A self-expanding stent includes capture segments including a first capture segment and a second capture segment. The first capture segment includes a first crown coupled to a first crown of the second capture segment and a second crown, where the second crown is spaced apart from an adjacent second crown ... 01/26/06 - 20060020321 - Stent delivery system allowing controlled release of a stent A stent delivery system includes a stent having at least one eyelet and at least one rivet and a holder supporting the stent, wherein the holder includes a first section having a first diameter and a second section having a second diameter. A sheath covers the stent and the holder. ... 01/19/06 - 20060015171 - Deployment system for intraluminal devices A constraining sheath for use around an endoprosthesis (e.g., a stent device, with or without a graft covering), which may be a balloon expandable endoprosthesis but more preferably is a self-expanding prosthesis. The endoprosthesis is coaxially enclosed within and substantially covered by the constraining sheath, which is an outer, removable ... 01/19/06 - 20060015170 - Contrast coated stent and method of fabrication The invention provides a system for treating a vascular condition. The system includes a catheter and a stent disposed on the catheter. The system further includes a stent with at least an outer portion of the stent framework coated with a drug polymer solution and a contrast medium substantially covering ... 01/12/06 - 20060009834 - Reflowed drug-polymer coated stent and method thereof The present invention provides a method of forming a drug-polymer coated stent. A polymeric coating is applied onto at least a portion of a stent framework and dried. A jet of heated gas is directed towards excess coating portions of the dried polymeric coating. The excess coating portions, which extend ... 12/29/05 - 20050288766 - Devices and methods for controlling expandable prostheses during deployment Prosthesis delivery devices and methods are provided that enable precise control of prosthesis position during deployment. The prosthesis delivery devices may carry multiple prostheses and include deployment mechanisms for delivery of a selectable number of prostheses. Control mechanisms are provided in the prosthesis delivery devices that control either or both ... 12/29/05 - 20050288765 - Exclusion of ascending/descending aorta and/or aortic arch aneurysm A system and method for exclusion of an aneurysm of an aortic arch region using a graft delivery system capable of maneuvering around an aortic arch, an aortic arch graft, and an occluder system for isolating an aneurysm while occluding one or more corresponding arteries, and with bypass of those ... 11/10/05 - 20050251244 - Non-thrombogenic stent jacket Disclosed is the use of serous tissue, such as pericardium, as a component of intracorporeal implants. Particularly, disclosed is a jacketed stent assembly comprising an expandable stent provided with a jacket of processed serous tissue which, in some embodiments, is impregnated with a therapeutic or diagnostic agent. In a preferred ... 11/03/05 - 20050246010 - Delivery catheter that controls foreshortening of ribbon-type prostheses and methods of making and use The present invention is directed to a delivery catheter for use in deploying a vascular prosthesis having a self-expanding helical section for use in a wide range of interventional applications. The delivery catheter comprises an elongated member having a helical ledge with a pitch selected to impose a predetermined amount ... 10/06/05 - 20050222666 - Endolumenal device for delivering and deploying an endolumenal expandable prosthesis Endolumenal device for delivering and positioning an endolumenal expandable prosthesis for a bifurcation between a principal conduit and at least one secondary conduit, comprising an elongated body having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion of the elongated body comprises expansion device. Guidewire tracking ... 09/22/05 - 20050209678 - Medical implant having a curlable matrix structure A medical implant, having a proximal and a distal end, that is preformed to assume a superimposed structure at an implantation site but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it by means of a micro-catheter and a guide wire arranged at the ... 06/16/05 - 20050131514 - Delivery system for endoluminal implant A delivery system for delivering an endoluminal implant to a distal deployment location inside a body lumen from a proximal access location outside the lumen. The system comprises the implant, a catheter, and a slidable sheath having an advanced position in which the sheath covers the implant and a retracted ... 06/09/05 - 20050125051 - Detachable segment stent An inventive repositionable stent may comprise a plurality of adjacent serpentine bands connected to one another by at least one permanent connector strut and by at least one disengagable connector strut. The stent may self-expand within a bodily lumen to an intermediate deployment diameter, wherein the stent is constrained from ... 06/02/05 - 20050119722 - Device for treating a blood vessel and a method of preparing the device The device comprises a tubular endoprosthesis (11) and a hollow prop (13) provided in the vicinity of a distal end with at least one transverse retaining opening (23A). The device includes a releasable retaining member (31). It also includes filamentary line (33A) which forms and eyelet (41) around the retaining ... 06/02/05 - 20050119721 - Stent delivery system A first stent delivery system provided with a sheath for covering the stent, the sheath including proximal sheath portion adapted to be movable in a proximal direction and a distal sheath portion adapted to be moveable in a distal direction. A second stent delivery system including an outer and intermediate ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |