Patent ID: 7011643

Claim:
In combination with one or more graft segments configured to operably transport bypass blood flow from a singular supply location to one or more delivery locations in a grafted network, an apparatus for directing such bypass blood flow in said grafted network to one or more vascular members, said apparatus comprising: a multiple channel blood flow connector for coupling first and second graft segments to a first vascular member comprising a first blood flow delivery location, said flow connector including a supply conduit and a delivery conduit integrally formed therewith and adjacently disposed with respect to one another, with said supply conduit and said delivery conduit each having distinct lumen formed therewithin, said supply conduit having first and second opposed open ends each being operably coupled to respective first open ends of such first and second graft segments thereto, said supply lumen and said delivery lumen being fluidly connected to one another through cooperating apertures in respective outer walls of said supply conduit and said delivery conduit at an intersection therebetween so as to provide for immediate bypass blood flow from said supply lumen to said delivery lumen, said delivery conduit having at least a first open end portion extending from said intersection and beyond a first perpendicular tangential plane of said supply conduit outer wall at a lateral side thereof with respect to said intersection, such that a first open end of said delivery conduit is laterally spaced from said supply conduit outer wall, said delivery conduit being configured for operable implantation directly into the first vascular member so as to provide bypass blood flow thereto, said delivery conduit being specifically sized to provide internal structural support for the first vascular member when said delivery conduit is implanted therein; and a flow restricting means operably coupled to a second open end of said second graft segment, and being operably disposed within the grafted network adjacent a terminal delivery location.