Stent crimping tool and method of use

Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Tube – sleeve or ferrule

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29151, 29516, 606 1, 606108, 606198, 623 1, B23P 1100

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ABSTRACT:
A stent crimping tool for firmly and uniformly crimping a stent onto a catheter. The stent crimping tool is constructed from a base having two vertically extending spaced apart supports and a coiled tension spring affixed at one end to a shaft and at the opposite end to one of the vertical supports. When a stent is loaded onto the balloon portion of a catheter, and the stent-catheter assembly is inserted into an axial space within the coiled spring, the user can rotate the shaft to twist the coiled spring thereby constricting it, and in turn the constriction of the coiled spring uniformly crimps the stent onto the balloon catheter.

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