Patent ID: 6096073
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: A61F,A61M

Abstract:
A method of deploying a stent at a lesion site, the lesion site being located at a bifurcation in a parent vessel, the bifurcation bifurcating the parent vessel into first and second branch vessels, the method comprising:advancing a first guidewire through the parent vessel into the first branch vessel;advancing a second guidewire through the parent vessel into the second branch vessel;configuring a first stent, having a distal end and a proximal end, with the first guidewire extending therethrough from the proximal end to the distal end thereof and with the second guidewire extending therethrough from the proximal end thereof to an aperture in the generally tubular wall structure;advancing the first stent over the first and second guidewires until the distal end is disposed in the first branch vessel and the proximal end is disposed in the parent vessel;deploying the first stent in the parent vessel and the first branch vessel, with the aperture disposed at an ostium of the second branch vessel;advancing a second stent over the second guidewire through the proximal end of the first stent and through the aperture in the first stent and into the second brand vessel; anddeploying the second stent in the second branch vessel.