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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
May. 25, 2014
Vascular Graft Solutions Ltd., Tel-Aviv, IL;
The Medical Research, Infrastructure and Health Services Fund of the Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, IL;
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;
VASCULAR GRAFT SOLUTIONS LTD., Tel-Aviv, IL;
THE MEDICAL RESEARCH, INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH SERVICES FUND OF THE TEL AVIV MEDICAL CENTER, Tel-Aviv, IL;
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.