Patent ID: 6991615

Claim:
In combination with one or more graft segments configured to operably transport bypass blood flow from a 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 at least a first graft segment 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 at least a first open end for operably receiving a respective open end of such first graft segment 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 first open end portion having a first central longitudinal axis that extends in a non-parallel direction with respect to a second tangential plane of said supply conduit taken at said intersection said first open end of said delivery conduit being configured for operable implantation directly into the first vascular member so as to provide bypass blood flow thereto.