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7582101 Heated mechanical detachment for delivery of therapeutic devices  
The disclosure describes apparatuses and methods for the luminal delivery of therapeutic devices. The apparatus includes a decoupling assembly comprising a retention element, a energy-responsive...
7534256 Intraluminal stent and graft  
An intraluminal stent and graft includes a stent made of a continuous helix of zig-zag wire and loops which connect adjacent apices of the wire. The stent is compressible and self-expandable...
7530988 Methods and systems for endovascular aneurysm treatment  
Aneurysms are treated by filling a double-walled filling structure with a curable medium. The structures may be delivered over balloon deployment mechanisms in order to shape and open tubular...
7491214 Filamentous embolization device with expansible elements  
An embolization device for occluding a body cavity includes one or more elongated, expansible, hydrophilic embolizing elements non-releasably carried along the length of an elongated filamentous...
7468053 Rapid exchange stent delivery system and associated components  
A rapid exchange stent delivery catheter includes an inner tubular member having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a stent holding portion located adjacent the distal portion of the inner...
7442200 Method of forming medical devices: intravascular occlusion devices  
Medical devices for filtering fluids flowing through a lumen and a method of forming medical devices. The devices can be used in vascular channels, urinary tracts, biliary ducts and the like, and...
7410492 Method and device for filtering body fluid  
Medical devices for filtering fluids flowing through a lumen and a method of forming medical devices. The devices can be used in vascular channels, urinary tracts, biliary ducts and the like, and...
7396540 In situ blood vessel and aneurysm treatment  
Treatment of aneurysmal blood vessels with local delivery of therapeutic agents thereby reduces or lessens the severity of an aneurysm, and, where used in conjunction with the placement of an...
7371215 Endoscopic instrument for engaging a device  
A device, system and method for diagnosing and treating a patient is provided where a functional device is attached to a stomach wall. The device in one embodiment provides electrical stimulation...
7314477 Removable embolus blood clot filter and filter delivery unit  
A blood clot filter which is collapsible toward a central longitudinal axis into a collapsed configuration for insertion into a blood vessel and which is radially expandable outwardly from the...
7198637 Method and system for stent retention using an adhesive  
The invention provides a method of manufacturing a system for treating a vascular condition. A catheter including an inflatable balloon is provided. A stent is positioned over the balloon. An...
7135037 System and method for forming a junction between elements of a modular endovascular prosthesis  
The present invention provides a system and a method for forming in vivo a junction between a first and a second element of a modular endovascular prosthesis used for repairing defects in vessels...
7115109 Rapid exchange stent delivery system and associated components  
A rapid exchange stent delivery catheter includes an inner tubular member having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a stent holding portion located adjacent the distal portion of the inner...
7041128 Vascular device for valve leaflet apposition  
A vascular system comprising a balloon catheter having an elongated shaft and an expandable balloon. A vascular device is mounted over the expandable balloon and composed of shape memory material...
7041117 Retrieval devices for vena cava filter  
A device for removing a thrombus filter from a blood vessel is disclosed. A device in accordance with the present invention includes a shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen...
7033373 Method and device for use in minimally invasive placement of space-occupying intragastric devices  
A space occupying device for deployment within a patient's stomach and methods of deploying and removing the device. The device includes an expandable member and fasteners, such as sutures, that...
7011671 Cardiac implant device tether system and method  
Catheterization apparatus for implanting devices is provided with a device tether. The apparatus includes a device delivery tube that provides a pathway for moving implant devices through a...
6974475 Angioplasty stent  
A prosthesis for use in preventing restenosis after angioplasty is formed of plastic or sheet metal, and is expandable and contractable for placement. The prosthesis can be inserted while in a...
6964671 Method and apparatus for placing a medical agent into a vessel of the body  
A method and apparatus for placing a medical agent, such as an embolic coil into a vessel, or aneurysm, by utilizing a stabilizing catheter to retain or support a medical agent deployment device.
6964667 Formed in place fixation system with thermal acceleration  
A subcutaneously formed in place orthopedic fixation device is provided, such as for fixation of the spine or other bone or bones. The device comprises an inflatable member, such as a tubular...
6962604 Flexible endoluminal stent and process of repairing a body lumen  
A generally tubular intraluminal compound stent comprising a plurality of component stents, each component stent having a length and a plurality of individual hoops axially disposed along the...
6939328 Dissolvable subcutaneous catheter cover  
A subcutaneous cover for insertion within a body of a user is disclosed. The cover is adapted to extend over at least a portion of a medical device disposed within the body of the user, and wherein...
6932828 Guidewire occlusion system utilizing repeatably inflatable gas-filled occlusive device  
A guidewire occlusion system for use in vascular procedures includes a repeatably inflatable gas-filled occlusive device proximate a distal end of a tubular guidewire assembly having an extended...
6869443 Biodegradable drug delivery vascular stent  
A stent includes a main body of a generally tubular shape for insertion into a lumen of a vessel of a living being. The tubular main body includes a substantially biodegradable matrix having...
6783542 Crimpable balloon/stent protector  
A protective sleeve for a catheter assembly comprising a tubular member composed of a first material. The first material having a first predetermined modulus of elasticity. The tubular member...
6776772 Balloon catheter having elastic filling body for supporting a stent  
The present invention relates to a balloon catheter for positioning a stent, including a tubular basic body with a proximal end and a distal end, and at least one lumen extending in between, a...
6774985 Stent manufacturing apparatus  
An apparatus for imprinting a stent configuration image from a mask form onto a tubular stent blank. The stent blank has a longitudinal axis and a photosensitive coating on the outer surface...
6774157 Biocompatible medical devices with polyurethane surface  
A system for improving the biocompatibility of medical devices present within a patient's body. In one embodiment, the present subject matter reduces the thrombogenicity of polyurethane materials...
6761731 Balloon-stent interaction to help reduce foreshortening  
The present design envisions a flexible connecting link used in conjunction with in-phase and half-phase circumferential sets of strut members. By increasing the total length and diagonality of the...
6746466 Method and apparatus for managing multiple guidewires  
A wire station is disclosed for securing and managing multiple wire members used in a catheter system. The wire management system includes a station for securing the proximal portion of two wire...
6736827 Low profile catheter  
A medical device for stenting within a patient's vascular system is a low profile fixed-wire balloon catheter. The balloon is not attached directly to the wire-like structure of the catheter,...
6712827 Stent delivery system  
A stent delivery system to facilitate introduction and placement of a stent, including a catheter having an expandable distal portion constructed and arranged for expanding the outer diameter of...
6692510 Aneurysm embolization device and deployment system  
An aneurysm embolization device and deployment system for use in occluding the flow of blood at a preselected position within a vessel of the human body comprising a headpiece and a plurality of...
6660020 Vaso-occlusive coil with conical end  
This is an implantable vaso-occlusive coil which is implanted using minimally invasive surgical techniques. It is a complex, helically wound coil made up of a primary helically wound coil which is...
6610069 Catheter support for stent delivery  
An angioplasty and stent delivery system to facilitate introduction and placement of a stent, including a catheter having an expandable distal portion constructed and arranged for expanding the...
6599299 Device and method for body lumen occlusion  
The present invention provides a device and method for occluding the body lumen including the cystic duct, wherein, in one embodiment, the device has a tapered end and an expandable segment. In...
6592597 Adhesive for attaching buttress material to a surgical fastening device  
A surgical stapling instrument for clamping and stapling tissue. The instrument has a handle and first and a second opposed tissue clamping members connected to the handle. The members are movable...
6579313 Methods for implanting cells  
A method for implanting cells onto a prosthesis includes the steps of: (a) providing a prosthesis including a porous tube, where at least 25% of the pores on the inner surface of the tube have...
6579301 Intragastric balloon device adapted to be repeatedly varied in volume without external assistance  
An intragastric balloon device includes a flexible bladder, a relatively rigid reservoir coupled to the bladder and adapted to hold a bladder inflation fluid, and an inflation/deflation system...
6569180 Catheter having exchangeable balloon  
An intravascular balloon catheter comprises a tubular catheter body having a balloon structure removably mounted over the catheter body. The catheter body has a guidewire lumen , and the catheter...
6562067 Stent with interlocking elements  
A stent comprises a lattice of interconnecting elements defining a substantially cylindrical configuration having a first open end and a second open end. The lattice has a locked configuration and...
6547804 Selectively permeable highly distensible occlusion balloon  
A process and apparatus for occluding a vascular site. A catheter having a highly distensible occlusion balloon detachably mounted at a distal end thereof is provided to the vascular site and at...
6545748 Apparatus for the method of manufacturing a stent  
Disclosed herewithin is an apparatus for fabricating a stent which involves processing a tubular member whereby no connection points to join the edges of a flat pattern are necessary. The apparatus...
6533811 Internal graft prosthesis and delivery system  
A resilient tubular graft is delivered into place within a body passage by elongating the graft to reduce its diameter and then directing the graft to the desired position while in the elongated...
6527790 Intravascular balloon catheter for embolic coil delivery  
Improved intravascular balloon catheters for the delivery of embolic agents and devices such as coils to wide-neck aneurysms. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a balloon catheter...
6517570 Exterior supported self-expanding stent-graft  
This is a medical device and a method of using it. The device is a foldable stent-graft which may be percutaneously delivered with (or on) an endovascular catheter, via surgical techniques or using...
6517548 Stent delivery system  
A stent delivery system to facilitate introduction and placement of a stent, including a catheter having an expandable distal portion constructed and arranged for expanding the outer diameter of...
6485515 Device with a prosthesis implantable in the body of a patient  
The device comprises a prosthesis designed as a hollow body compressed against the action of restoring spring forces to a cross section reduced relative to an expanded use position, and held in...
6468300 Stent covered heterologous tissue  
A covered stent assembly comprising a tubular, expandable stent having a metallic framework covered with a cylinder of biocompatible, non-thrombogenic expandable material, such as heterologous...
6463317 Device and method for the endovascular treatment of aneurysms  
This invention provides a method and a device for treating hemodynamically significant aneurysms especially in the intracranial and extracranial circulation regions using either X-ray fluoroscopy...
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