US4733665C2
Expandable intraluminal graft and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft
Abstract
An expandable intraluminal vascular graft is expanded within a blood vessel by an angioplasty balloon associated with a catheter to dilate and expand the lumen of a blood vessel. The graft may be a wire mesh tube or a thin-walled tubular member having a plurality of openings formed therein.
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Numbers
- Publication, DOCDB
- 4733665
- Publication, EPODOC
- US4733665
- Application
- 796009
- Application, DOCDB
- 79600985
- Application, EPODOC
- US19850796009
Titles
- English
- Expandable intraluminal graft and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft
Classification
- CPC, 7
- A61F2/91
- A61F2/07
- A61F2/915
- A61F2/958
- A61F2002/91541
- A61F2002/91558
- A61F2230/0054
- IPC, 5
- A61B17 00
- A61F2 04
- A61F2 86
- A61F2 91
- A61F2 958