Apparatus and method for vascular embolization

Details Apparatus and method for vascular embolization Apparatus and method for vascular embolization

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A61B 17/00 (2006.01) A61L 31/00 (2006.01) A61L 31/06 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2736639

Apparatus for vascular embolization, deployable through a microtcatheter, includes a flexible, elongate deployment tube dimensioned for insertion through the microcatheter, and a filamentous embolic device releasably attached to the distal end of the tube. The embolic device is controllably transformable from a soft, compliant state to a rigid or semi- rigid state. The embolic device may include a polymeric material that is transformable by contact with vascular blood or with a liquid that is cooler than vascular blood, or it may include a metallic material that is transformable by electrolytic corrosion. The embolic device may be a continuous filamentous polymeric extrusion; an elongate microcoil filled with polymeric material; an elongate, multi--segmented chain including polymeric interconnecting portions; or an elongate chain of metal segments that are fused together by electrolytic corrosion.

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