Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Therasense, Inc.

Travis Rowe

Gregory R Furnish

Gregory G Brucker

Simon M Furnish

David A Rahdert

Todd A Hall

William C Mers Kelly

Matthew Pease

Brandon G Walsh

Thomas Banks

Gerald M Hubbs

Hacene Bouadi

John Conrad Muskivitch

Russ J Redmond

William A Reuss, Jr

Indaka Gunasekara

Josh Barber

Sava A Chernomordik

Gregory M Ruhf

Enrique Malaret

David Byrd

Benjamin E Morris

Michael W Wilson

Valerie Futral

Claude A Vidal

Joseph A Vivolo

Benjamin Morris

Kelley J Lipman

Valerie Futral Maron

Michael A Wilson

Systems for delivering a bifurcated stent to a bifurcation site include catheters and/or bifurcated systems delivered therefrom. A catheter includes a balloon with a bulge region that allows a portion of the stent to be expanded.

Bifurcated stent and delivery system

Systems for delivering a bifurcated stent to a bifurcation site comprise catheters and/or bifurcated stents delivered therefrom.

A bifurcated stent includes a first stent section and a second stent section. The first stent section is balloon expandable, has an unexpanded configuration, an expanded configuration, and a tubular wall defining a secondary opening. The secondary stent section is self-expanding and an end of the secondary stent section is engaged to a portion of the tubular wall of the primary stent section defining the secondary opening. The secondary stent section has an unexpanded configuration with a first length and an expanded configuration with a second length where the first length is less than the second length. The secondary stent section is expanded to the expanded configuration after the primary stent section is expanded to the expanded configuration. The secondary stent section forms a portion of the tubular wall of the primary stent section in the unexpanded configuration.

A bifurcated stent comprises a first stent section and a second stent section. Each stent section is expandable from a predeployed state to a deployed state independently from one another. The second stent section having an end engaged to a receiving region of the first stent section. In the deployed state the first stent section defines a primary flow path and the second stent section defines a secondary flow path in fluid communication with the first flow path. At least a portion of one or both the first stent section and second stent section is constructed from a wire member.

Bifurcated stent

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