Compliant venous graft

US8057537B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Kips Bay Medical, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Peter Paul Zilla · Cape Town, ZA
• Nasser Rafiee · Andover, US
• Deon Bezuidenhout · Stellenbosch, ZA
• Thomas Franz
• Mark Yeoman · Heathfield, GB
• Hellmut Bowles · Milnerton, ZA
• Nareak Douk · Lowell, US
• Michael F. Wolf · Golden Valley, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 2004
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2011
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2/90
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A venous graft for replacement of a section of an artery and methods of making the graft. The graft comprises a flexible, resilient, generally tubular external support and a vein segment carried within and having an ablumenal surface in contact with and supported by the tubular support, the venous graft being capable of resilient radial expansion in a manner mimicking the radial compliance properties of an artery.