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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016

Filed:

May. 25, 2014
Applicants:

Vascular Graft Solutions Ltd., Tel-Aviv, IL;

The Medical Research, Infrastructure and Health Services Fund of the Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, IL;

Inventors:

Eyal Orion, Ramat-Efal, IL;

Yehuda Bachar, Givat Shmuel, IL;

Yanai Ben-Gal, Ramat-HaSharon, IL;

Avraham Rapaport, Tel-Aviv, IL;

Gilad Cibulski, Zur-Moshe, IL;

Ronny Winshtein, Ramat-HaSharon, IL;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/82 (2013.01); A61F 2/06 (2013.01); A61B 17/11 (2006.01); A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/82 (2013.01); A61F 2/064 (2013.01); A61B 17/11 (2013.01); A61B 17/12 (2013.01); A61B 2017/1107 (2013.01); A61B 2017/1135 (2013.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods of supporting a vein, featuring deforming a vein support while being mounted on the vein. Such deformation may be sufficient to impose thereupon a plastic deformation that alters a length of the vein support, from a pre-deformation relaxed length to a post-deformation relaxed length different than the pre-deformation relaxed length. Following the plastic deformation, the vein support may maintain a new shape relative to a longitudinal axis thereof.


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