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Implant delivery technologies

  • US 7,785,361 B2
  • Filed: 03/23/2004
  • Issued: 08/31/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of treating a vessel in a human body comprising:

  • passing a balloon catheter, which has a balloon, over an elongate stent carrying member, which has a stent attached thereto and serves as a guidewire for the balloon catheter, to a treatment site in a vessel in a human body such that said balloon is aligned with said treatment site; and

    expanding said balloon while said balloon catheter is over said elongate stent carrying member with said balloon aligned with the treatment site to dilate the treatment site prior to deployment of said stent.

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