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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2000
Paul J. Thompson, New Hope, MN (US);
Schneider (USA), Plymouth, MN (US);
Abstract
The expandable stent-graft generally defines a cylindrical lumen made from a stent having a discontinuous wail that is at least substantially covered with an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene material. The expanded polytetrafluoroethylene covering may be a biaxially oriented, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene material having nodules and longitudinal and circumferential fibrils or a uniaxially oriented. expanded polytetrafluoroethylene material. The expandable stent-graft expands and compresses in association with the stent structure as it is contracted and expanded.
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