Patent ID: 9579187
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A radially compliant pressure indicating stent graft comprising: a) a cylindrical wall; b) free stent graft diameter; c) an cylindrically shaped elastic stent that is radially compliant in compression and expansion, and having: d) a radially oversized non-compliant cylindrically shaped graft having: wherein the free graft diameter is larger than the free stent diameter and wherein the radially compliant pressure indicating stent graft is radially expandable from the free stent diameter to the free graft diameter and is elastic between the free graft diameter and the free stent diameter; wherein the free graft diameter is at least 5% greater than the free stent diameter; e) attachments between the stent and the graft that affix the stent to the graft; wherein the free stent graft diameter is substantially the same as the free stent diameter and wherein there is a stored radial length of the graft between said attachment points; wherein the stent graft is radially expandable to an expanded stent graft diameter that is substantially the same as the free graft diameter and radially compliant between the expanded stent graft diameter and the free stent graft diameter; wherein the attachments comprise a bondable tape, and wherein the bondable tape is non-compliant and is wrapped over an outer surface of the stent graft.