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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1997
Dinah B Quiachon, San Jose, CA (US);
Alec A Piplani, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steve G Baker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ronald G Williams, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard S Williams, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kenneth L Osborn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ted W Layman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter K Johansson, San Jose, CA (US);
Endovascular Technologies, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for repairing a vessel at a bifurcation using a multicapsule catheter having first, second and third capsules for releasably retaining each terminal end of a bifurcated graft. The method for repairing the vessel includes the steps of performing a surgical technique to gain remote access to the vessel, advancing the multicapsule catheter within the vessel and releasing the bifurcated graft within the vessel to thereby repair the vessel.