Patent ID: 6302908
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An arterial graft device for reinforcing bifurcated arteries having a distal main artery portion and two proximal bifurcated legs, the arterial graft device comprising a body and a separate elongated segment, said body including: (i) an expandable retaining device to fix the body into the main artery portion; (ii) an integral elongated segment depending from a bifurcated juncture, the integral depending elongated segment being capable of extending into one of the two legs to internally connect the main artery portion with the one leg; (iii) a cone-shaped segment depending from a connecting opening and extending toward the other leg, the cone-shaped segment having a passage of proximally increasing diameter as the cone-shaped segment extends from the connecting opening toward the other leg for receiving and guiding a catheter guidewire inserted along the other leg and for guiding the separate elongated segment of the graft device for connection with the connecting opening; and (iv) a connecting surface comprising an axially extended inner periphery extending distally with an increasing diameter from the connecting opening toward the bifurcated juncture.