Patent ID: 6017364
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for intraluminally repairing a diseased portion of a first corporeal lumen within a patient's vasculature which includes a second corporeal lumen branching from the first corporeal lumen, comprising:a repair device configured to be placed intraluminally within the patient's vasculature, said repair device adapted for tissue ingrowth, anda catheter sized for placement within the second corporeal lumen and for being advanced within the patient's vasculature to the first corporeal lumen, said catheter being flexible and having an outer profile that facilitates advancement from the second corporeal lumen to the first corporeal lumen and further having a radially expandable inflatable portion and being operatively associated with said repair device for intraluminally deploying said repair device within the first corporeal lumen, said radially expandable inflatable portion configured to engage said repair device to implant said repair device within the first corporeal lumen so that the diseased portion of the corporeal lumen is thereby repaired.