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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2004
Applicant:
Jay A. Dittman, Bloomington, IN (US);
Inventor:
Jay A. Dittman, Bloomington, IN (US);
Assignee:
Cook Incorporated, Bloomington, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/84 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An introducer for an expandable endovascular prosthesis having a self expanding stent has a distal prosthesis positioning mechanism and a proximal prosthesis retention mechanism. The proximal prosthesis retention mechanism includes a cylindrical sleeve adapted to retain the self expanding stent. A release mechanism extends proximally from the distal prosthesis positioning mechanism and exerts a force in the proximal direction on an interior surface of the self expanding stent to retain the self expanding stent in the cylindrical sleeve.