Surgery – Instruments – Internal pressure applicator
Patent
1996-01-19
1997-09-16
McDermott, Corrine M.
Surgery
Instruments
Internal pressure applicator
A61M 2900
Patent
active
056675216
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to over-the-wire PTCA balloon catheters (5), and more particularly, to a rapid exchange catheter with the guidewire lumen (50) at the distal tip. The present invention discloses a rapid exchange medical catheter having a wire guiding means external to the shaft (35) for slidably mounting over the guidewire (55), the wire guiding means being a short tubular member having a proximal end and a distal end extending proximally from the distal end of the shaft (35) and terminating before the distal end of the balloon therapy means.
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McDermott Corrine M.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
Plunkett Dianne M. F.
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