Method of using a guidewire with stiffened distal section
AssigneeMedtronic Vascular, Inc.
InventorsDonagh O'Shaughnessy, Noel Coyle
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Abstract
A method of treating a vascular condition includes inserting at least one locally stiffened guidewire into a vessel, advancing a distal section of the guidewire to a position adjacent a treatment site and providing a stiffening portion of the distal section to a location adjacent the treatment site. The method further includes disposing a delivery catheter over the inserted guidewire, advancing a distal portion of the delivery catheter to the treatment site, the distal portion carrying at least one stent and deploying the stent at the treatment site.
Claims10
A method of treating a vascular condition, the method comprising:
- inserting into a vessel at least one locally stiffened guidewire having a locally stiffened portion;
- advancing the locally stiffened portion of the at least one locally stiffened guidewire to a location adjacent a treatment site;
- disposing a delivery catheter over the inserted at least one locally stiffened guidewire;
- advancing the delivery catheter until a distal catheter portion carrying at least one stent is disposed about the locally stiffened portion of the at least one locally stiffened guidewire;
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- deploying the stent at the treatment site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.