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US 2006/0069423 A1Published application
Means and method for treating an intimal dissection after stent implantation
OwnerDavid Fischell, Robert Burgermeisterinventors
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If however, the angiography with the contrast medium indicates that an edge dissection has occurred, then the fixed guidewire stent delivery catheter would be left in place with its balloon deflated. The Luer fitting at the proximal end of the stent delivery catheter would then be cut off and a rescue in the form of a rescue catheter would be advanced over the stent delivery catheter. The rescue catheter would then be advanced until its distal end extended distally beyond the site of the edge dissection. The fixed wire stent delivery catheter would then be pulled out of the body through the rescue catheter and a conventional guidewire would be inserted through the rescue catheter. The rescue catheter would then be removed leaving the guidewire in place. A conventional stent delivery catheter would then be used to deliver a second stent to the site of the intimal dissection at the edge of the first implanted stent, thus repairing the dissection.
A rescue catheter adapted for placement over a fixed guidewire stent delivery catheter after an intimal dissection has been detected following the placement of a stent into an artery of a human body, the rescue catheter comprising:
A method for repairing an intimal dissection resulting from the placement of a stent that has been delivered from a fixed guidewire stent delivery catheter, the method comprising the following steps:
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