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  • Dilator and introducer assembly
    Patent number: 6106540
    Abstract: A resiliently flexible body vessel or body cavity dilator that tapers toward one end and a transition zone that decreases in flexibility along the dilator away from the one end. The dilator can comprise a dilator arranged to be slid over a guidewire for use in the placement of an intraluminal graft bridging an aortic aneurysm. The dilator can also comprise an inner core of relatively stiff material surrounded by an outer layer of resiliently flexible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey H. White, Weiyun Yu