Patent ID: 6451048
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A graft structure for attachment to the body organ tubing of a patient, wherein the body organ tubing has a wall, comprising:an elongated flexible tubular graft having two ends; a ring member attached to the tubular graft at one end of the two ends of the graft; and a first plurality of radially self-expandable wires that are disposed around the periphery of one end of the ring member and a second plurality of radially self-expandable wires that are disposed around the periphery of the other end of the ring member, the first and second pluralities of wires being separated by a gap in which a portion of the body organ tubing is engaged between the first and second pluralities of wires thereby connecting the one end of the graft to the wall of the body organ tubing.