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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2001
Kanji Inoue, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-0802, JP;
Other;
Abstract
The device is to keep a collapsible/restorable elastic artificial blood vessel in a collapsed condition, to transport the artificial blood vessel to a target position and subsequently to restore the artificial blood vessel into a predetermined shape by releasing it from the collapsed condition. The device comprises wrapping members which are generally flat when spread and wires which hold each of the wrapping members in a condition of being rolled, wherein each of a body portion and a branch portion of the artificial blood vessel is contained inside the wrapping members held by the wires in a collapsed condition and the wires are separated from the wrapping members at the target position to spread the wrapping members so as to release the artificial blood vessel