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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1999
William M. Colone, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Kevin G. Farl, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Barbara L. Teeter, Tempe, AZ (US);
William L. Creer, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Joseph B. Sinnott, Tempe, AZ (US);
Endomed, Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
An intraluminal device such as a stent graft is formed of a conformable ePTFE tube and preferably a compressed self-expanding stent affixed to the tube. The conformable tube is made by a special process which insures that the tube is radially deformable up to a predetermined diameter without exceeding the plastic deformation limit of the tube. The stent has a relaxed diameter larger than the diameter of the expanded tube after insertion so that the tube is biased to a cylindrical shape. The process for making the tube involves progressively dilating a small diameter extruded tube until a desired diameter is achieved. The tube is then contracted on a small diameter mandrel by heating.