Appeal No. 98-2783
Application 08/450,009
APPENDED CLAIM
1. A prosthetic device (20) for sustaining a blood vessel
or hollow organ lumen (21), comprising:
a wire frame (1) having a flexible tubular shape (13) and
a plurality of interconnected cells (2) with flexible inter-
connections (14), wherein each of the flexible interconnections has
first and second wire segments (15,16) that are wound around each
other at an axially extending portion (17) of the wire frame, wherein
each of the first and second wire segments runs longitudinally along
the wire frame and through the inter- connected cells, wherein the
first and second wire segments in at least one of the flexible
interconnections are wound in a first direction (18), and wherein the
first and second wire segments in at least an other of the flexible
interconnections are wound in a second direction (19) opposite to the
first direction.
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