An intravascular catheter with an expandable region formed of a tubular material that continues the distal end of the catheter body in a one-piece configuration and is radially expanded and contracted by means of a control wire. The inte...
A device capable of being used as both a dilator and catheter is presented. The dilator-catheter is comprised of an expandable housing having an interior wall and exterior wall with a space therebetween. A longitudinal cavity is provided...
OBJECTIVES This article describes a catheter system designed to create linear atrial lesions and identifies electrophysiologic markers that are associated ...
The present study proposes a catheter system with an expandable coil etched on a polyimide foil. The catheter system combines the advantages of a small ins...
OBJECTIVES This article describes a catheter system designed to create linear atrial lesions and identifies electrophysiologic markers that are associated ...
An intravascular catheter such as a dilatation catheter for angioplasty with a catheter shaft having an outer tubular member with an expandable distal section which expands elasticly upon the introduction of fluid under a pressure within...
A stent delivery system having an expandable stent in a contracted condition positioned on an expandable member, such as an inflatable balloon, disposed on the distal portion of an elongated catheter body. A guidewire extends through an ...
ofA reinforcing membrane in the form of an elastic sheath used with a balloon catheter to enhance the delivery of an intravascular stent of the kind delivered by a balloon catheter. The sheath (20) is interspaced between the balloon and ...
Polymeric balloon having a burst pressure of at least 200 psi (1.4 MPa) and a radial expansion beyond nominal inflated diameter of less than 5% at 200 psi ...
A heatable dilation catheter includes an elongated flexible catheter which has an inflatable balloon attached to its distal end. The balloon has a heating element attached to it. A lumen provides a passageway which allows fluid to be int...
An apparatus for deploying a radially self-expanding stent includes proximal and distal sleeves respectively containing proximal and distal end portions of the stent in a reduced radius delivery configuration. The sleeves can abut one an...
A catheter with a balloon characterized by a balloon reinforced with a composite yarn consisting of an elastic yarn and a non- elastic yarn with a larger free length of the non-elastic yarn than that of said elastic yarn. When the cathet...
A medical balloon and a catheter utilizing the balloon (8) and a mechanism to attach the balloon (8) to the catheter tube, and method of making the balloon. The attachment mechanism forms a joint (10,11) and comprises a plurality of co-e...
A stent delivery catheter handle for providing relative motion between the outer sheath of a stent delivery catheter and an underlying catheter, via a thumbswitch, to enable the outer sheath to withdraw from over the underlying catheter ...
An improved system for uniformly implanting a stent in a body lumen comprising an intravascular catheter having an elongated catheter body and at least one inflation lumen contained therein, the catheter body including proximal and dista...
