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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2000
Ube Industries, LTD, Yamaguchi, JP;
Abstract
A graft with a stent, includes: a stent composed of a resilient wire having a supporting frame comprising a wire having a zigzag shape forming top and bottom portions; and tubes being made of plain woven of polyester resin fibers and having a thickness of 20 &mgr;m to 100 &mgr;m. The tubes are disposed between inner surface and outer surface of the stent, and the inner tube surface and the outer tube surface are partially adhered to each other by a polyester resin. The graft is free from hindrance of blood from flowing by kink and/or arctation in a corner such as an arched portion, a curved portion, and meandering portion, is resistant to expansion and contraction and bending, and is fit to a shape of a blood vessel of a human body. The graft is usable for a total percutaneous intravascular surgery because it can be inserted into a sheath having a small diameter because of a thin artificial blood vessel, and is prone not to have leakage from a connection with a blood vessel. The stent does not directly contact an organism and is capable of being indwelt in an organism.