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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2003
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd., Queensland, AU;
Cook Incorporated, Bloomington, IN (US);
William Cook Europe ApS, Bjaeverskoy, DK;
Abstract
An arrangement for mounting a stent graft prosthesis () onto a deployment device () with a retention arrangement () which includes retention at a number of points of the circumference of the proximal end of the stent graft prosthesis (). The arrangement provides a greater circumferential distance () between two adjacent retention points () then other of the points. When the deployment device is deployed in a curved lumen such as the thoracic arch it is oriented so that the greater circumferential distance () is on the inner side of the curve.