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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2007
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Krasnodar Ivancev, Lund, SE;
Michael Lawrence-brown, City Beach, AU;
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Krasnodar Ivancev, Lund, SE;
Michael Lawrence-Brown, City Beach, AU;
William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd., Brisbane, AU;
William Cook Europe ApS, Bjaeverskov, DK;
Cook Incorporated, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
A stent graft introducer has a nose cone dilator () and a distally opening capsule () on the nose cone dilator, a balloon guide () extending into the capsule and affixed therein. Upon completion of deployment of a stent graft, a balloon catheter () including an inflatable balloon () thereon can be advanced over the balloon guide at least partially into the nose cone whereby the balloon can be inflated therein to provide a smooth transition from the nose cone to a delivery sheath () for retraction of the nose cone dilator through the deployed stent graft. The balloon guide can be a separate wire ().