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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2007
Robert James Allen, Garran, AU;
David Ernest Hartley, Wannanup, AU;
Werner D. Ducke, Eight Mile Plains, AU;
Robert James Allen, Garran, AU;
David Ernest Hartley, Wannanup, AU;
Werner D. Ducke, Eight Mile Plains, AU;
William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd., Queensland, AU;
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
A stent graft () for treatment of an emergency rupture of, for instance, the aorta adjacent the aortic bifurcation. The stent graft comprising a tubular body () with a bifurcation () in the tubular body defining a first long leg () and a second short leg (). The second leg has a valve arrangement () to prevent fluid flow through the second leg from the stent graft. The valve can be opened from external of the stent graft for the placement of a leg extension stent graft () therethrough.