Patent ID: 11944530
Assignee: AQUEDEON MEDICAL, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 3:
4. A method for implanting a vascular graft within a patient, comprising providing the vascular graft having a proximal end with an expandable mesh, a distal end with an expandable mesh and at least two intermediate sections positioned relatively closer to each other than to the proximal and distal ends of the vascular graft, the at least two intermediate sections comprising graft material connecting the proximal and distal ends along a longitudinal axis such that the proximal and distal ends are separated by a first distance and the at least one of the at least two intermediate sections having a first outside diameter in an insertion state, positioning at least one end of the vascular graft within a lumen for conducting blood of the patient, expanding the vascular graft from the insertion state to a deployed state, which contracts the at least one intermediate section along the longitudinal axis to form, in part by compression of the vascular graft substantially in the longitudinal direction, at least one outwardly extending suture cuff between the proximal and distal ends, such that the suture cuff formed from the at least two intermediate sections has a second outside diameter greater than the first outside diameter and the proximal and distal ends are separated by a second distance in the deployed state, the second distance being less than the first distance, and securing the least one outwardly extending suture cuff of the vascular graft to a wall of the lumen for conducting blood of the patient by suturing with suture material.