Patent ID: 8109987
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. A method for treating a bifurcation between a main lumen and a branch lumen, comprising the steps of: providing a radially expandable prosthesis, having a proximal end, a distal end, a support structure on the distal end, a circumferential link on the proximal end and at least two fronds extending axially between and being connected to the support structure and the circumferential link; transluminally navigating the prosthesis to a treatment site; and deploying the prosthesis at the site such that the support structure is expanded in the branch lumen by a first diameter section of a first deployment balloon, and the circumferential link is expanded in the main lumen by a second diameter section of the deployment balloon; wherein the prosthesis is deployed such that all of the fronds connected to the circumferential link extend across the bifurcation into the main lumen in a direction opposite of blood flow.