Patent ID: 6918925
Filing Date: 2005-07-19
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A device for placement in the aortic arch and spanning the left brachiocephalic artery and the right brachiocephalic artery, the device comprising: a graft, the graft having a main body sized for insertion in the aortic arch and defining a central lumen; the graft having a left branch and a right branch attached to the main body and arranged for flow communication with the central lumen, each of the main body, the left branch and the right branch including a stent and shiftable between a narrowed undeployed configuration and an expanded deployed configuration; the left branch including a sheath arranged to constrain the left branch in the undeployed configuration, the left branch arranged to be pulled into the left brachiocephalic artery exclusively under tension by a left pull wire; the right branch including a sheath arranged to constrain the right branch in the undeployed configuration, the right branch arranged to be pulled into the right brachiocephalic artery exclusively under tension by a right pull wire; an inner sheath, the inner sheath arranged to constrain the main body of the graft in the undeployed configuration; and an outer sheath, the outer sheath arranged to constrain each of the left branch and the right branch in a folded position generally adjacent the main body when each of the left branch and the right branch is in the undeployed configuration.