Patent ID: 8226706

Claim:
A combination of a stent graft and a deployment device therefor, the stent graft comprising a tubular body of a biocompatible graft material defining a main lumen therethrough, at least one aperture in the tubular body, and a flexible tubular side arm sealingly fastened around the at least one aperture, the flexible tubular side arm being in an everted disposition in which it extends into the main lumen and able to be turned inside out into a non-everted disposition to extend from the tubular body, such that the flexible tubular side arm is in fluid communication with the main lumen, the deployment device comprising a deployment catheter and a guide wire catheter which extends through the deployment catheter and the main lumen, and a side arm guide, the side arm guide being releasably fastened to the flexible tubular side arm and extending through the main lumen noncoaxially and adjacent to the guidewire catheter and being capable of being moved along the main lumen independently of the guide wire catheter to push the flexible tubular side arm from its everted disposition extending into the main lumen to its non-everted disposition extending from the tubular body.