Atherectomy system with a guide wire

Details Atherectomy system with a guide wire Atherectomy system with a guide wire

1989-05-12

1990-12-25

Hafer, Robert A.

Surgery

Instruments

Blood vessel, duct or teat cutter, scrapper or abrader

606170, 604 22, A61B 1732

Patent

active

049799398

ABSTRACT:
An atherectomy system for coring, ingesting and removing an obstruction material from within a patient's vessel having a flexible guide-wire defining voids for containing obstruction material and defining a diametrical envelope, a flexible rotary-catheter slidable and rotatable over the diametrical envelope having a rotary coring means at its distal end, a continuous passage defined around the flexible guide-wire by the flexible rotary-catheter for ingesting the cored obstruction material, and coupling means at the proximal end of the flexible rotary-catheter for coupling to rotating means.

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patent: 4747406 (1988-05-01), Nash
patent: 4772258 (1988-09-01), Marangoni et al.
patent: 4790812 (1988-12-01), Hawkins, Jr. et al.
patent: 4886490 (1989-12-01), Shiber

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