DETACHABLE EMBOLIZATION COIL SLEEVE

The present invention provides a delivery system for deploying an embolization coil. The delivery system comprises a delivery tube, a flexible sleeve extending distally from the delivery tube, and a mandril slidably disposed in the lumens of the delivery tube and the flexible sleeve. The present inv...

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1. Verfasser:	EVERT KATHRYN R
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS 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:	The present invention provides a delivery system for deploying an embolization coil. The delivery system comprises a delivery tube, a flexible sleeve extending distally from the delivery tube, and a mandril slidably disposed in the lumens of the delivery tube and the flexible sleeve. The present invention also provides an embolization coil delivery assembly comprising the delivery system of the present invention and an embolization coil. A proximal portion of the embolization coil is frictionally engaged by the flexible sleeve of the delivery system. The present invention also provides a method for positioning and deploying an embolization coil at a deployment site in a patient's vasculature using the delivery assembly of the present invention.