A bifurcated or straight intravascular folded tubular member is
deliverable percutaneously or by small cutdown to the site of a vascular
lesion. Its inserted state has a smaller nondeployed diameter and a
shorter nondeployed length. The intravascular tubular member has a folded
tubular section that is unfolded following insertion into the blood
vessel. The length of the intravascular folded tubular member is sized in
situ to the length of the vessel lesion without error associated with
diagnostic estimation of lesion length. The folded tubular member is
self-expandable or balloon-expandable to a larger deployed diameter
following delivery to the lesion site. An attachment anchor can be
positioned at the inlet or outlet ends of the intravascular folded
tubular member to prevent leakage between the tubular member and the
native vessel lumen and to prevent migration of the tubular member. The
attachment anchor has a short axial length to provide a more focal line
of attachment to the vessel wall. Such attachment is valuable in
attaching to a short aortic neck in the treatment of abdominal aortic
aneurysm. The attachment anchor can have barbs which are held in a
protected conformation during insertion of the tubular member and are
released upon deployment of the attachment anchor. The intravascular
tubular member can be formed of woven multifilament polymeric strands
with metallic strands interwoven along with them. Double weaving is
incorporated to prevent leakage at crossover points.