Covidien LP

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Micro Therapeutics, Inc.

Thomas McCarthy

Earl Slee

Mark Philip Ashby

Thomas Wilder

Sanjay Shrivastava

William Robert Patterson

Brian M Strauss

Hans Henkes

Tom Wilder

Hermann Monstadt

David Franco

Herman Monstadt

Thomas Wilder, Iii

Thomas Iii Wilder

Earl Howard Slee

Earl H Slee

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.

Methods and apparatus for flow restoration

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.

A vaso-occlusive device is provided for reducing blood flow in a patient. The device can include a coil, a stretch resistant member, and a plurality of fibers. The coil can define a lumen and be sized for insertion to a point of use in a vascular network of the patient. The stretch resistant member can have a first end fixedly attached to the first end of the coil. Further, the plurality of fibers can be configured with each of the fibers in direct contact with the stretch resistant member.

Metallic coils enlaced with fibers for embolization of a body cavity

The invention provides for vaso-occlusive coils comprising fibers.

Metallic coils enlaced with biological or biodegradable or synthetic polymers or fibers for embolization of a body cavity

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San Clemente, CA, United States of America

Thomas McCarthy