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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2002
Gregory G. Brucker, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Todd Hall, Goshen, KY (US);
Enrique Malaret, Plymouth, MN (US);
David Byrd, Louisville, KY (US);
Gerald Hubbs, Louisville, KY (US);
Gregory Furnish, Louisville, KY (US);
Josh Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Indaka Gunasekara, Louisville, KY (US);
Benjamin Morris, Louisville, KY (US);
Valerie Futral, Louisville, KY (US);
Sava A. Chernomordik, Louisville, KY (US);
William C. Mers Kelly, Crestwood, KY (US);
William A. Reuss, Jr., Louisville, KY (US);
Simon Furnish, New York City, NY (US);
Michael W. Wilson, LaGrage, KY (US);
Hacene Bouadi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John C. Muskivitch, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew L. Pease, Mountain View, CA (US);
David A. Rahdert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Travis Rowe, Fremont, CA (US);
Gregory M. Ruhf, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brandon G. Walsh, Livermore, CA (US);
Claude Vidal, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Thomas Banks, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Russ Redmond, Goleta, CA (US);
SciMed Life Systems, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A bifurcated stent comprises a first stent section and a second stent section. Each stent section is expandable from a predeployed state to a deployed state independently from one another. The second stent section having an end engaged to a receiving region of the first stent section. In the deployed state the first stent section defines a primary flow path and the second stent section defines a secondary flow path in fluid communication with the first flow path. At least a portion of one or both the first stent section and second stent section is constructed from a wire member.