APPARATUS AND METHOD TO REDUCE RESTENOSIS AFTER ARTERIAL INTERVENTION

This invention is an apparatus guided by a guide wire (9) within a patient's artery for reducing restenosis after arterial intervent ion in the patient's artery. A radiation dose delivery wire (8) with a radiation source (8d, 8e, 8f) encapsulated within its distal end is inserted into a bl...

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1. Verfasser:	WEINBERGER, JUDAH Z
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre
Schlagworte:	DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY DIAGNOSIS ELECTROTHERAPY HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE IDENTIFICATION MAGNETOTHERAPY MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE RADIATION THERAPY SURGERY ULTRASOUND THERAPY
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Zusammenfassung:	This invention is an apparatus guided by a guide wire (9) within a patient's artery for reducing restenosis after arterial intervent ion in the patient's artery. A radiation dose delivery wire (8) with a radiation source (8d, 8e, 8f) encapsulated within its distal end is inserted into a blind lumen (7) in a balloon catheter (5) to deliver radiation to a t arget area of the patient's artery.