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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Lyon Harris, Liverpool, GB;
Thien Voon How, Liverpool, GB;
Assignee:
IMPRA, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 ;
Abstract
A vascular prosthesis ( ) comprises a tube ( ) of material other than autologous vascular tissue, the tube having an end formation for surgical connection direct to an opening formed in an artery, the formation comprising an enlarged chamber ( ) having a heel ( ) and a toe ( ) at opposite ends of a first longer diameter parallel to the axis of the tube and a second shorter transverse diameter the enlarged chamber serving to promote localised movement of blood having a non-laminar nature with a shear stress inducing relationship to receiving arterial wall.