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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2002
Anthony Walter Anson, Middlesex, GB;
Peter William Phillips, Evesham, GB;
John Reidy, London, GB;
Shakeel Qureshi, London, GB;
Anthony Walter Anson, Middlesex, GB;
Peter William Phillips, Evesham, GB;
John Reidy, London, GB;
Shakeel Qureshi, London, GB;
Anson Medical Limited, , GB;
Abstract
A stent for occluding the human ductus arteriosus comprises a length of wire of shape memory effect or superelastic material which is expandable from a relatively straightened state for introduction into the patient to an occluding state wherein the wire defines an occluding anchor part and a spiral anchor part and a straight linking part connecting the two wherein the wire has a series of turns extending over the cross-sectional area of the occluding anchor part.