Patent ID: 8343207

Claim:
A stent/graft prosthesis comprising a seamless tubular knitted textile portion having yarns interloped in a knitted pattern defining a cylindrical knitted textile wall having opposed first and second open ends; a first seamless tubular woven textile portion having yarns interlaced in a woven pattern defining a cylindrical woven textile wall having opposed first and second open ends; an attachment means for securing said first open end of said first woven textile portion to said first open end of said knitted textile portion; a second seamless tubular woven textile portion having yarns interlaced in a woven pattern defining a cylindrical woven textile wall having opposed open ends, wherein said second woven textile portion is securably attached by said attachment means to said second open end of said knitted textile portion; a generally tubular stent having openings in its wall structure and having opposed first and second stent open ends, wherein said stent is circumferentially disposed about interior portions of said knitted textile and said woven textile walls; and a second attachment means for securing said stent about interior portions of said knitted textile and said woven textile walls.