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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2000
Kanji Inoue, Kyoto 606-0802, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A device for guiding a branched artificial blood vessel having a tubular main body with collapsible/restorable elasticity and a branch portion with collapsible/restorable elasticity which branches from a part of the main body with its internal space communicating with the main body which artificial blood vessel has been transferred as collapsed in a main blood vessel to a branched part branching a branch blood vessel from the main blood vessel the device being utilized in inserting the branch portion of the artificial blood vessel into the branch blood vessel the device comprising an operating rod inserted into the main body from a trailing open end thereof and operable for rotation by hand, a guiding rod continuously connected to the operating rod so as to be capable of turning around with rotation of the operating rod and having a leading end extending to an open end of the branch portion, and mooring means for releasably mooring the branch portion by a portion adjacent the open end thereof to the guiding rod wherein when the main body is moved backward with the guiding rod made to assume a predetermined position by turning, the branch portion accompanying the guiding rod is capable of advancing into the branch blood vessel together with the guiding rod