The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sohrab Sethna, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/07 (2013.01); A61F 2/82 (2013.01); A61F 2/945 (2013.01); A61F 2/852 (2013.01); A61F 2/06 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/07 (2013.01); A61F 2/852 (2013.01); A61F 2/945 (2013.01); A61F 2002/061 (2013.01); A61F 2002/077 (2013.01); A61F 2002/826 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0061 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0085 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0003 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0023 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0069 (2013.01);
Abstract
A primary stent-graft is deployed into a primary vessel to exclude an aneurysm. To maintain perfusion to a branch vessel covered by the primary stent-graft, a gutter filling stent-graft is deployed in parallel to the primary stent-graft. The gutter filling stent-graft includes a balloon that is pressurized and inflated by the patient's own blood thereby sealing any gutters formed around the gutter filling stent-graft. By sealing the gutters, the chance of type I endoleaks, migrations, and overall failure to exclude the aneurysm is minimized.