Patent ID: 6149682
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: A61F,D04C,D10B

Abstract:
A luminal endoprosthesis for ramification of an anatomical conduit, comprising two radially compressible and extendable base elements, each of said base elements comprising:a continuous multifilament structure delimiting a longitudinal cavity open at two ends, and having two flexible segments, respectively a first segment and a second segment, extending one in a continuation of the other, substantially along a same axis in the absence of stress, andat least one lumen opening into the longitudinal cavity at a junction between the first segment and the second segment, the same filaments forming the structure of the first segment and of the second segment;the respective first segments of each of the base elements being engageable one within the other, and having substantially identical cross-sections, such that the second segment of one of the base elements is engageable in the lumen opening of the other of the base elements.