Claims
- 1. A method of treating a physiologic condition comprising the steps of:(a) providing a metal fabric formed of a plurality of metal strands, the strands having been heat-treated to set a desired shape, the fabric then being further heat-treated in a mold having a shape of a desired medical device to set the shape of the fabric in a deformed state to the shape of the desired medical device that can be collapsed for passage through a catheter for deployment in a patient's body; (b) passing a catheter through a tubular organ in the patient's body until a distal end of the catheter is adjacent a desired treatment site; (c) collapsing the medical device and inserting the medical device into the catheter's lumen, and (d) urging the device along the lumen of the catheter and out of the distal end of the catheter for deployment at the treatment site.
- 2. The method as in claim 1 wherein the medical device is an occluder and the treatment site is an abnormal opening in an organ wall.
- 3. The method as in claim 1 wherein the medical device is a filter and the treatment site is a tubular vessel.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 09/613,412, Jul. 10, 2000 which is now U.S. Pat. No. 6,447,531 and entitled “METHOD OF FORMING MEDICAL DEVICES; INTRAVASCULAR OCCLUSION DEVICES, which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/272,335, filed Jul. 8, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,123,715.
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