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Angioplasty apparatus facilitating rapid exchanges and method

  • US 20030120301A1
  • Filed: 11/08/2002
  • Published: 06/26/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1986
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In an apparatus of the character described for introduction into the vessel of a patient, a guiding catheter adapted to be inserted into the vessel of the patient, and a device adapted to be inserted into the guiding catheter, the device including a flexible elongate member, a sleeve carried by the flexible elongate member near the distal extremity thereof and extending from a region near the distal extremity to a region spaced from the distal extremity of the flexible elongate element, the device also including a guide wire adapted to extend through the sleeve so that the guide wire can be positioned so that it extends from the distal extremity of the flexible elongate member, through the sleeve and rearwardly of the sleeve alongside of and exteriorally of the flexible elongate element into a region near the proximal extremity of the flexible elongate element.

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