Patent ID: 6506204
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An aneurysm occlusion device for occluding an aneurysm in a vessel of a patient's body, comprising a bulbous body portion sized to be received within the aneurysm and an anchor sized and shaped to engage an interior surface of the vessel's wall, the body portion and the anchor being integrally formed of a resilient fabric comprising a plurality of braided strands permitting the occlusion device to be collapsed for deployment and resiliently self-expand to occlude the aneurysm, the occlusion device having a pair of clamps for securing ends of the strands defining the resilient fabric, one of said clamps being carried by the anchor, the other of said clamps being carried by the body portion and wherein the clamp carried by the body portion does not extend beyond the curvature of a surface of the body portion to provide the body portion with an atraumatic surface.