Graft devices and methods of use

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8992594
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13515996

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A tubular graft device is provided comprising a tubular member and a fiber matrix of one or more polymers about a circumference of the tubular member. The matrix may be electrospun onto the tubular tissue. In one embodiment, the tubular tissue is from a vein, such as a harvested saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided is method of preparing a tubular graft and connecting the graft between a first body space and a second body space, such as the aorta and a location on an occluded coronary artery, distal to the occlusion.

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XELTIS AG8008 ZÜRICH

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El-Kurdi, Mohammed S Pittsburgh, US 26 242
Flaherty, J Christopher Auburndale, US 467 62771
McGrath, Jon Duxbury, US 27 176
Soletti, Lorenzo Pittsburgh, US 34 366

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