Button-balloon system

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2006-06-13

2006-06-13

Lucchesi, Nicholas (Department: 3763)

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

C604S910000, C604S264000, C604S104000

Reexamination Certificate

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07060050

ABSTRACT:
A balloon-button system or a catheter for performing percutaneous enteral feeding includes a holding part, which can be placed on the abdominal wall, and a probe tube, which extends from the holding part while being connected thereto and via which the nourishment that is inserted through a connecting part situated in the holding part can be introduced into the stomach lumen. A distal end of the probe tube is turned inside out and pulled back over the probe tube and joined in a fluid tight manner to form a single-piece probe tube having an inner and an outer tube portion wherein the outer tube is expandable to form a balloon by introducing a fluid. This system is characterized in that the probe tube surrounds a protective tube, and the protective tube has a higher Shore A hardness than the probe tube.

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