Patent ID: 8568466
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method for deploying a bifurcated endoluminal prosthesis at the junction of a main vessel and first and second branch vessels, comprising: providing a deployment system containing a prosthesis having a main body section and first and second proximally extending branch sections; introducing the deployment system into the first branch vessel at a first access site; advancing the deployment system distally through at least a portion of the first branch vessel and into the main vessel; releasing the second branch section of the prosthesis by proximally retracting an outer sheath of the deployment system; expanding the main body section of the prosthesis from a radially compressed state within the deployment system to a radially expanded state within the main vessel by removing a first peelable sheath from the main branch section; and expanding the second branch section within the second branch vessel by proximally retracting a second branch release wire.