Stent delivery system and endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsToshihiro YAMAGATA, Hiromichi MIYANO
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Abstract
A stent delivery system includes a guide catheter, a stent into which the guide catheter can be inserted, and a pusher catheter into which the guide catheter can be inserted and disposed in a proximal end side relative to the stent. The guide catheter has a guide catheter tip portion protruding to a distal end side further than the stent when the guide catheter is inserted into the stern and the pusher catheter, and a guide catheter body disposed at least partially in the passages of the stent and the pusher catheter. The stent has flexural rigidity equal to or lower than that of the guide catheter body, and the stent mounted region has flexural rigidity equal to or lower than that of the pusher mounted region.
Claims8
A stent delivery system comprising:
- a guide catheter that can be inserted into a channel of an endoscope;
- a stent formed in a tubular shape and provided with a first passage into which the guide catheter can be inserted;
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- a pusher catheter formed in a tubular shape, provided with a second passage into which the guide catheter can be inserted, and disposed in a proximal end side relative to the stent,
- the guide catheter having, in a state in which the guide catheter is inserted into the stent and the pusher catheter,
- a guide catheter tip portion protruding to a distal end side further than the stent,
- a guide catheter body disposed inside the stent and the pusher catheter,
- wherein a portion of the guide catheter inserted into the stent is defined as a stent mounted region,
- a portion of the guide catheter inserted into the pusher catheter is defined as a pusher mounted region,
- the stent has flexural rigidity equal to or lower than that of the guide catheter body, and
- the stent mounted region has flexural rigidity equal to or lower than that of the pusher mounted region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.