Patent ID: 9675439
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A stent-graft, comprising: a substantially tubular graft material; and a stent coupled to the graft material, the stent having proximal and distal ends and further having compressed and deployed states, the proximal end being disposed proximally beyond a proximal edge of the graft material, and the distal end having at least one portion overlapping with the proximal edge of the graft material, where the stent comprises at least one distal apex having a bifurcation extending into first and second leg regions, where a distal end of the first leg region is positioned to overlap the graft material at a location circumferentially spaced apart from a location at which a distal end of the second leg region overlaps the graft material in the deployed state, wherein the first and second leg regions are separate and distinct, and only connect to the stent at the distal apex having the bifurcation from which they extend, where the first leg region is generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the stent in both the compressed and deployed states, and where the second leg region is parallel to the longitudinal axis in the compressed state but angled relative to the longitudinal axis in the deployed state.