Expandable intraluminal graft, and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft
- Filed
- 7 November 1985
- Granted
- 29 March 1988
- Assignee
- Expandable Grafts Partnership
Medical devices, vascular stents
Julio C. Palmaz: inventions and patents
Known for Balloon-expandable intravascular stentNationality Born in ArgentinaBorn 13 December 1945
Julio C. Palmaz is a vascular radiologist who earned his medical degree from the National University of La Plata in 1971 and developed the intravascular stent at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio between 1978 and 1985. The National Inventors Hall of Fame describes the Palmaz Stent as the first commercially successful stent and the first balloon-expandable one. It says the FDA approved it for peripheral arterial use in 1991 and for coronary use in 1994. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.1
Patents
Inventions
- Palmaz Stent. A metal open mesh tube inserted into a blood vessel and expanded to hold it open and restore blood flow.1
Recognition
- 2006 Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame1
Sources
- National Inventors Hall of Fame, Julio C. Palmaz (accessed 2026-10-28)
- Google Patents, US4733665A Expandable intraluminal graft (accessed 2026-10-28)