Intravascular foreign matter removing wire and medical implement
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1. An intravascular foreign matter removing wire comprising:
- a flexible long wire body;
a first catching section located on a tip side of the wire body and operative to catch a foreign matter present inside a blood vessel;
a second catching section located in a vicinity of and on a base end side of said first catching section and operative to catch a foreign matter inside a blood vessel, the second catching section possessing a tip end part and a base end part, the tip end part of the second catching section being located closer to the first catching section than the base end part of the second catching section; and
an operating wire possessing a tip end part directly connected to the tip end part of the second catching section, the operating wire being movable with respect to the first catching section so that movement of the operating wire in a base end direction away from the first catching section moves the tip end part of the second catching section.
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Abstract
An intravascular foreign matter removing wire has a flexible long wire body, a first catching section located on the tip side of the wire body and operative to catch a foreign matter present inside a blood vessel, and a second catching section located in the vicinity of and on the base end side of the first catching section and operative to catch a foreign matter present inside a blood vessel.
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1. An intravascular foreign matter removing wire comprising:
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a flexible long wire body; a first catching section located on a tip side of the wire body and operative to catch a foreign matter present inside a blood vessel; a second catching section located in a vicinity of and on a base end side of said first catching section and operative to catch a foreign matter inside a blood vessel, the second catching section possessing a tip end part and a base end part, the tip end part of the second catching section being located closer to the first catching section than the base end part of the second catching section; and an operating wire possessing a tip end part directly connected to the tip end part of the second catching section, the operating wire being movable with respect to the first catching section so that movement of the operating wire in a base end direction away from the first catching section moves the tip end part of the second catching section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An intravascular device for removing foreign matter from a bodily lumen, the intravascular device comprising;
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a flexible wire body having a distal end positionable inside the bodily lumen and a proximal end positionable outside the bodily lumen; a first catching section connected to the distal end of the wire body and configured to catch foreign matter inside the bodily lumen; a second catching section configured to catch foreign matter inside the bodily lumen, the second catching section comprising a first filamentous body and a second filamentous body, the second filamentous body surrounding the first filamentous body, the second filamentous body possessing a tip end part and a base end part, the tip end part of the second filamentous body being fixed to the first filamentous body and the base end part of the second filamentous body being fixed to the first filamentous body, the tip end part of the second filamentous body being located closer to the first catching section than the base end part of the second filamentous body; and an operating wire possessing a tip end part connected to the tip end part of the second filamentous body and movable in a base end direction to cause the second catching section to curve into an arc-shape. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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