Surgery – Instruments – Internal pressure applicator
Patent
1990-10-31
1992-07-28
Thaler, Michael H.
Surgery
Instruments
Internal pressure applicator
A61B 1700
Patent
active
051337339
ABSTRACT:
In a collapsible filter for introduction into a blood vessel of a patient and of the kind comprising a number of legs (1-4) diverging from an apical hub (5) and each having a reversely turned hook (1b-4b) at its distal end with respect to said hub (5), each leg comprises a central element (1a-4a), bent into a smooth quasi-half sinusoidal form, and two substantially symmetrical curved side elements (1c-4c, 1d-4d) extending on either side of the central element (1a-4a). The filter may as whole may be unfolded from a collapsed insertion condition in which the central and side elements of all legs (1-4) forms a narrow bundle for arrangement in a catheter like insertion instrument into a tulip like filter configuration with the side elements (1c-4c, 1d-4d) interposed between the central elements (1a-4a) of the legs.
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Gunther Rolf W.
Rasmussen Erik
Thaler Michael H.
William Cook Europe A/S
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