INTRALUMINAL MEDICAL INSTRUMENT PLACEMENT SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a delivery system for installing an intraluminal medical instrument and dispersing the pressure more evenly within the intraluminal medical instrument while the instrument is being delivered to any desired region to be treated. SOLUTION: A support member provided to...

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Hauptverfasser: HOO BRUCE A, JACKSON KAREN P, BUZZARD JON D, WIDENHOUSE CHRISTOPHER W, VALDES FRANCISCO
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a delivery system for installing an intraluminal medical instrument and dispersing the pressure more evenly within the intraluminal medical instrument while the instrument is being delivered to any desired region to be treated. SOLUTION: A support member provided to an inner member of a catheter delivery system crimps this instrument so as to help disperse pressure evenly within the instrument on the whole and send the instrument to a region to be treated while keeping it mechanically compressed. The support member is preferably made of a material whose elasticity becomes higher as it is more compressed, and thus due to the mechanical property of the support member, higher stability of the instrument at the time of the installation or distribution can be obtained without heat application, nor the preparation of any spare goods or additional mechanical members. Due to the high stability in the installation of the instrument on the support member, the instrument can be relocated. The intraluminal medical instrument can be composed of either stents, stent grafts, and their segments, or a series of such stents, stent grafts and their segments. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT