A61B17/12118

MICROGRAFT FOR THE TREATMENT OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS AND METHOD FOR USE

A device for occluding a vasculature of a patient including a micrograft having an absorbent polymeric structure with a lumen of transporting blood. The micrograft has a series of peaks and valleys formed by crimping. The occluding device is sufficiently small and flexible to be tracked on a guidewire and/or pushed through a microcatheter to a site within the vasculature of the patient. Delivery systems for delivering the micrografts are also disclosed.

Filamentary devices for treatment of vascular defects

Devices and methods for treatment of a patient's vasculature may include a resilient self-expanding permeable implant having a radially constrained elongated state configured for delivery within a catheter lumen and an expanded state with a longitudinally shortened configuration, and a plurality of elongate filaments which are woven together. Each of the plurality of elongate filaments may have a diameter between about 0.0005 and about 0.005 inches. The implant includes at least some filaments consisting of nitinol and at least some composite filaments that are drawn filled tube wires comprising an external nitinol tube and a highly radiopaque material concentrically disposed within the external tube. The implant has at least about 40% composite filaments relative to a total number of filaments, and wherein a total number of filaments is about 10 to about 300.

Systems and methods with anchor device for fixation of filling structures in blood vessels
11723668 · 2023-08-15 · ·

A system, for deployment in a blood vessel includes an anchor device having a stent and a suture loop that joins distal end portions of the stent. A first filling structure and a second filling structure are at least partially insertable through the suture loop to an area within the stent when the stent is in an expanded state. The anchor device has a size such that at least a portion of the first filling structure and at least a portion of the second filling structure protrude through openings in the anchor device to form a seal against a wall of the blood vessel when the first filling structure and the second filling structure have been at least partially inserted through the suture loop and have been filled. A method allows for repairing one or more blood vessels using the system.

Orientable intracranial occlusion device and method
11723785 · 2023-08-15 ·

An orientable intravascular device having a “twelve o'clock” marker on a proximal and distal end for treating an aneurysm, including a packaging catheter with an identical fixed non-round shaped inner lumen, a pusher wire having an occlusion device releasably disposed on the distal end of said pusher wire, preloaded at a fixed circumferential orientation, with corresponding markers on the outside of said packaging catheter, a hub having an inner lumen that is shaped to marry with the outer lumen of the packaging catheter to deliver a delivery wire and occlusion stent in a predicted orientation, and maintaining such orientation as the wire and stent are advanced through said delivery catheter, and while said delivery catheter is withdrawn. Methods of using same are disclosed.

ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS IN NEUROVASCULAR ANATOMY
20230248366 · 2023-08-10 ·

Method of endovascular intervention in neurovascular anatomy of a patient including deploying an anchor of a tethering device in an anchoring vessel of a neurovascular anatomy, the anchor coupled to a tether extending proximally from the anchor. Method includes advancing a guide-sheath over the tether of the tethering device anchored in the anchoring vessel and attached to the tether, the guide-sheath includes at least one lumen and a distal opening from the lumen. Method includes advancing a treatment device through the lumen of the guide-sheath and out the distal opening from the at least one lumen and through an entrance of a target intracranial vessel, and deploying the treatment device at a treatment site within the target intracranial vessel without a combined therapy of two or more anti-platelet therapeutic agents during a pen-procedural period. Related systems, devices, and methods are disclosed.

Filler material, filler delivery device, and filler delivery method

A filler delivery device is configured to place a filler inside a bulge occurring in a body lumen. The filler delivery device includes a frame member configured to be expandable and compressible, and a tubular member through which a catheter for injecting the filler into the bulge is insertable. The tubular member is provided such that, when the frame member is in an expanded state, an open end of the tubular member is directed in a direction intersecting an extending direction of the body lumen. The filler material includes a base gel having flowability with which the filler material flows inside the catheter, and shape retainability with which the filler material stays inside the bulge after being injected from the catheter into the bulge, and a solidification promoting substance that promotes solidification of blood inside the bulge.

METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS
20220117607 · 2022-04-21 ·

Methods of implanting a device in the lumen of a blood vessel are described. The method includes providing a microcatheter and a device. The device includes a first hub, a second hub, a support structure including a plurality of struts disposed between the first hub and the second hub, and a layer of material disposed over the plurality of struts. The support structure has a low profile, radially constrained state with an elongated tubular configuration suitable for delivery from a microcatheter. The support structure also has an expanded state, a smooth outer surface, and has an axially shortened configuration relative to the radially constrained state. The microcatheter is advanced to a region of interest within the blood vessel. The support structure is advanced through the lumen of and out the distal end of the microcatheter where it expands to the expanded state.

OCCLUSIVE DEVICES WITH SPIRAL STRUTS FOR TREATING VASCULAR DEFECTS
20230240686 · 2023-08-03 ·

Devices for treating vascular defects and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, for example, an occlusive device for treating an aneurysm includes a tubular structure having a first end portion with a first opening, a second end portion with a second opening, and a mesh surface extending between the first and second end portions. The occlusive device also includes a plurality of spiral struts coupled to the first end portion of the tubular structure and extending over the first opening. When the occlusive device is deployed within the aneurysm, the tubular structure and the plurality of spiral struts can be configured to self-expand such that the plurality of spiral struts span a neck of the aneurysm substantially within a single plane and the mesh surface of the tubular structure engages a wall of the aneurysm near the neck.

Endoprosthesis devices and methods of using the same
11712331 · 2023-08-01 · ·

Endoprosthesis assemblies and methods for using the same. In at least one embodiment, the endoprosthesis assembly comprises an endoprosthesis comprising an impermeable inner wall defining an endoprosthesis lumen sized and shaped to permit fluid to flow therethrough, a distal balloon positioned at or near a distal end of the endoprosthesis and capable of inflation to anchor the distal end of the endoprosthesis within a luminal organ, and a proximal balloon positioned at or near a proximal end of the endoprosthesis and capable of inflation to anchor the proximal end of the endoprosthesis within the luminal organ, wherein when the endoprosthesis assembly is positioned within the luminal organ at or near an aneurysm sac, inflation of the distal balloon and the proximal balloon effectively isolates the aneurysm sac and prevents fluid within the aneurysm sac from flowing past the distal balloon and the proximal balloon.

FLOW DIVERTER DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
20230293183 · 2023-09-21 ·

A flow diverter delivery system having a catheter, a pusher wire slidably disposed within the catheter, a distal guide linearly coupled to a distal end of the pusher wire, and a flow diverter anchor coupled to the distal guide. A flow diverter having an undeployed and a deployed configuration is mechanically coupled to the flow diverter anchor and, when in the deployed configuration, includes a low-porosity distal cap, a transverse flow section coupled to the distal cap, and a linear support body coupled to the transverse flow section. The low-porosity distal cap is structurally configured to divert at least a portion of blood through the transverse flow section. When the flow diverter is exposed from the catheter, radial movement of the flow diverter away from the flow diverter anchor disengages the mechanical coupling between the flow diverter and the flow diverter anchor.