Patent ID: 6015422
Filing Date: 2000-01-18
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A device for treating blood vessel anomalies, said device comprising a tubular vascular graft, the vascular graft being formed about a longitudinal axis with an inner surface extending the length of the vascular graft about the longitudinal axis, and a first flexible guidewire formed to define a collapsible loop and a segment, said loop being resiliently formed with memory to self-expand from a collapsed state to a natural, non-collapsed state, said loop encircling the longitudinal axis of the vascular graft and supporting portions of the inner surface of the vascular graft, wherein a first portion of said segment is integrally connected to said loop and extends therefrom in a direction continuously angular to the longitudinal axis of the graft, a second portion of said segment is integrally connected to and extends from said first portion through at least a portion of the vascular graft.