DEVICES FOR TREATING LOWER EXTREMITY VASCULATURE

Provided herein is a catheter comprising a sheath and an expandable element configured to expand a vessel upon deployment. The catheter is configured to snare a guidewire within the sheath and remove the guidewire from the vessel upon removal of the catheter from the vessel. Also provided is a cathe...

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Hauptverfasser:	WENZEL, Marcus, KUM, Steven, LENIHAN, Timothy, DEATON, David, Hugo, HUMBERT, Sophie
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS 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 DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS DIAGNOSIS FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS FIRST-AID KITS FOMENTATION HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE IDENTIFICATION MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES PROSTHESES SURGERY TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS
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Zusammenfassung:	Provided herein is a catheter comprising a sheath and an expandable element configured to expand a vessel upon deployment. The catheter is configured to snare a guidewire within the sheath and remove the guidewire from the vessel upon removal of the catheter from the vessel. Also provided is a catheter comprising a catheter body, a capture element and a guidewire lumen in communication with the capture element.