Monorail
AssigneesTaewoong Medical Co., Ltd., Kyong Min SHIN
InventorKyong Min Shin
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Abstract
A monorail guides a guide wire introduced into an outer tube in a catheter for stent surgery. The catheter includes the outer tube having an outer hole, an inner tube installed in the outer tube, and a guide wire inserted into the outer hole and the inner tube and protruding outwards from a front end of the inner tube so that the outer tube and the inner tube move along the guide wire so as to be guide a stent. The monorail includes a separation guide which is inserted into and fixed in the outer tube and configured such that the guide wire that is inserted into the outer hole is spaced apart from the inner tube without making contact with the inner tube.
Claims4
A monorail of a catheter for stent surgery, the catheter comprising an outer tube having an outer hole, an inner installed in the outer tube, and a guide wire introduced into the outer hole and the inner tube and protruded outwards from a front end of the inner tube so that the outer tube and the inner tube move along the guide wire so as to be guide a stent to a target surgical location for installation of the stent,
- wherein the monorail is provided in the catheter so as to space the guide wire apart from the inner tube and guide the guide wire and comprises a separation guide inserted into and fixed in the outer tube and configured such that the guide wire that is introduced into the outer hole is spaced apart from the inner tube without making contact with the inner tube.
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