Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1992-11-12
1995-01-24
Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
606194, A61M 2500
Patent
active
053838530
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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Jung Eugene J.
Keown Kenneth
Turk Peter I. C.
Maglione C.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
Plunkett Dianne M. F.
Rosenbaum C. Fred
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