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Intracoronary exchange apparatus and method

  • US 5,290,247 A
  • Filed: 05/21/1991
  • Issued: 03/01/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An improved guidewire exchange apparatus for use in facilitating the substitution of a second guidewire for a first guidewire positioned within a monorail catheter, the monorail catheter having a guidewire lumen passage therethrough and a proximally-facing opening in the lumen passage adapted to receive a guidewire, the improvement comprising means associated with the proximally-facing opening for guiding the second guidewire into the lumen of the catheter while the proximally-facing opening is within a body lumen.

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