HANDHELD DEVICE FOR STENT IMPLANTATION

• US 20120289972A1
• Filed: 04/26/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Biotronik AG (Biotronik SE & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Biotronik AG (Biotronik SE & Company KG)
• Inventors: Hofmann, Eugen, Moehl, Raimund
• Application Number:
  US13/457,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20120289972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/108
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/95 Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/9517 handle assemblies therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0007 for adjusting length
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0065 telescopic
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0175 having telescopic features, interengaging nestable members movable in relations to one another

Abstract

A handheld device for the operation of an application system for stent implantation comprising an adapter for connection to an introducer sheath or a guide catheter, through which a wire or catheter can be inserted into a vessel. The adapter is in the form of a telescopic tube.

Claims

1. A handheld device for the operation of an application system for stent implantation comprising an adapter for connection to an introducer sheath or a guide catheter, through which a wire or catheter can be inserted into a vessel, the adapter being designed as a telescopic tube.

2. The handheld device according to claim 1, wherein the telescopic tube comprises 4 to 8 tubes or cylinders.

3. The handheld device according to claim 1, wherein the individual tubes or cylinders of the telescopic tube, in the maximally extended state, remain guided within one another along a length of at least 5 cm.

4. The handheld device according to claim 1, wherein the adapter comprises locking elements for immobilizing a length of the telescopic tube.

5. An application system for stent implantation, comprising a handheld device according to claim 1.