Cardiac Assist Technologies, Inc.

Michael Szwerc

James A Magovern

Dennis Robert Trumble

Wayne P Griffin

David W Kletzli

An apparatus for repairing a vessel in a patient. The apparatus includes a graft. The apparatus includes a mechanism for compressing the vessel to the graft and holding the vessel to the graft. A method of repairing a vessel of a patient. The method includes the steps of placing a first end of a graft in contact with a first side of the vessel. Then there is the step of placing a second side of the graft in contact with the second side of the vessel. Next there is the step of compressing the first side of the vessel against the first end. Then there is the step of compressing the second side of the vessel against the second end.

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Allison Park, PA, United States of America

Michael Szwerc