Surgery – Instruments – Means for inserting or removing conduit within body
Patent
1998-05-28
1999-09-14
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Means for inserting or removing conduit within body
128898, A61F 1100
Patent
active
059515694
ABSTRACT:
What is disclosed is a stent delivery system comprising an inflation shaft having an expandable balloon sealingly mounted at the distal end thereof and a tubular sheath having the inflation shaft longitudinally running therethrough. The tubular sheath has an expandable sheath at the distal end thereof with the balloon longitudinally running therethrough and an expandable stent mounted on the expandable sheath. Also disclosed is a method of delivering a stent into a body lumen. The method comprises the steps of providing an inflation shaft having an expandable balloon sealingly mounted at the distal end thereof and providing a tubular sheath having the inflation shaft longitudinally running therethrough. The expandable sheath has the balloon longitudinally and slidingly running therethrough, and an expandable stent is mounted on the expandable sheath. The stent is positioned in the body lumen at the treatment site and the balloon is inflated simultaneously with the expandable sheath to deploy the stent.
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Rupp Garry Eugene
Tuckey Joel F.
Buiz Michael
Latham Dianne Plunkett
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
Troung Kevin
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