Patent ID: 9743932
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A medical device for deployment in a body, wherein the device comprises: a tubular body comprising a first end and a second end, the body defining a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end, the body comprising a body width measured transverse to the longitudinal axis; and a flange attached to the body proximate the second end of the body and extending outwardly from the body and around an entire periphery of the body, the flange comprising a flange width transverse to the longitudinal axis, a concave outer surface facing the first end of the body and a convex outer surface facing the second end of the body, the concave and convex surfaces respectively joining together at a flange lip located between the first and the second ends of the body, spaced inward from the second end along the longitudinal axis, and proximate an outermost dimension of the flange width; wherein, when the device is in a relaxed configuration, the body width proximate the flange is half or more of the flange width.