BIFURCATED ENDOLUMINAL PROSTHESIS

摘要

The invention comprises: an introducer for delivering into the vasculature a straight or bifurcated stent or prosthesis; a method fo r delivering into the vasculature a straight or bifurcated stent or prosthesis ; a method of treating an angeological disease using a b ifurcated stent; an endoluminal stent having perpendicular hoop members, each hoop mem ber formed of wire in a sinuous configuration, at least some of juxtaposed apices in neighboring hoops being secured to one another, such stents also forming axially aligned segments in st raight stents, and segments of bifurcated stents in particular embodiments. Certain embodiments of such stents also include barbs, fabric c overing and radiopaque markets.