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US 2003/0229277 A1Published application
Catheter for cardiovascular application
AssigneesBiotronik Mess- und Therapiegerate GmbH & Co., GmbH & Co., Ingenieurburo Berlin
InventorsGernot Kolberg, Curt Kranz, Erhard Flach
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Abstract
A catheter for cardiovascular application comprises an elongated catheter shank; a lumen inside the catheter shank; a mandrel sleeve that extends in the lumen; a guide wire which runs in the mandrel sleeve and is extendable through a sluice gate out of the catheter at a distal end thereof, and a sealing unit for sealing the lumen, the sealing unit being disposed proximally in front of the sluice gate and reversibly pierced by the replaceable mandrel sleeve.
Claims6
A catheter for cardiovascular application, comprising
- an elongated catheter shank (1);
- a lumen (2) inside the catheter shank (1);
- a mandrel sleeve (16) which extends in the lumen (2);
- a guide wire (18) which runs in the mandrel sleeve (16) and is extendable through a sluice gate (11) out of the catheter at A distal end (6) thereof, and
- a sealing unit (13) for sealing the lumen (2), the sealing unit (13) being disposed proximally in front of the sluice gate (11) and reversibly pierced by the replaceable mandrel sleeve (16).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.