PERCUTANEOUS CIRCULATORY SUPPORT DEVICE INCLUDING GUIDEWIRE DISTAL TIP PORTION

A percutaneous circulatory support device includes a housing and an impeller disposed within the housing. The impeller is rotatable relative to the housing to cause blood to flow through the housing. A cannula is coupled to the housing, and a distal tip portion is coupled to the cannula opposite the...

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Hauptverfasser: SHIREMAN, Brice Lee, BEEKMAN, Darrin Dale
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A percutaneous circulatory support device includes a housing and an impeller disposed within the housing. The impeller is rotatable relative to the housing to cause blood to flow through the housing. A cannula is coupled to the housing, and a distal tip portion is coupled to the cannula opposite the housing. The distal tip portion includes an inner shaping core configured to maintain a predetermined shape of the distal tip portion and an outer layer disposed outwardly from the inner shaping core or the distal tip portion includes an atraumatic, sphere-shaped distal end.