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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2004
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Michael Lawrence-brown, Beach, AU;
Wolf Stelter, Bad Soden, DE;
Krasnodar Ivancev, Lund, SE;
Eric L. G. Verhoeven, Groningen, NL;
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Michael Lawrence-Brown, Beach, AU;
Wolf Stelter, Bad Soden, DE;
Krasnodar Ivancev, Lund, SE;
Eric L. G. Verhoeven, Groningen, NL;
Cook Incorporated, Bloomington, IN (US);
William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd., Queensland, AU;
William Cook Europe ApS, Bjaeverskov, DK;
Abstract
A deployment system for introducing stent grafts which have a side arm or into which a side arm can be deployed. For instance the stent graft can be deployed into the thoracic arch of a patient. The deployment system including an introducer (), an auxiliary catheter () disposed within the introducer and an auxiliary guide wire () disposed within the auxiliary catheter. The auxiliary guide wire extends to adjacent the proximal end () of the introducer and can be extended from the proximal end of the introducer so that it can be snared from a side branch artery () to assist with deployment of a side arm () of the stent graft into the side artery or for the deployment of a side arm stent graft into the stent graft.