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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2007
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Werner Dieter Ducke, Greenwood, AU;
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Werner Dieter Ducke, Greenwood, AU;
William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd., Queensland, AU;
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
A leg extension () for a stent grafting system to connect between an aortic graft and an iliac graft. The leg extension is a tubular body () of a biocompatible graft material with self-expanding stents connected along the length of the tubular body and the tubular body having a distal end with a connection region. The connection region has a flared stent defining an external frusto-conical surface to provide a connection arrangement to engage within an internally flared portion of an iliac graft.