Angioplasty guide catheter

Patent 5445625 Issued on August 29, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 14, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Voda, Jan

Application

No. 259567 filed on 06/14/1994

US Classes:

604/532, Shaped for cardiovascular system604/523Flexible catheter or means (e.g., coupling) used therewith

Examiners

Primary: Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Assistant: Bockelman, Mark

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson

Foreign Patent References

0132344A2 EP. 01/10/1985
0277366A1 EP. 08/10/1988

International Class

A61M 025/00

Abstract

An angioplasty guide catheter adapted for use within a cardiovascular system and cooperable with a left main coronary artery. The guide catheter has a distal end portion such that with a distal tip of the distal end portion coaxially intubated within an ostium of the left main coronary artery fully disposed within the cardiovascular system, a portion of the distal end portion rests against and is substantially contiguous with a wall of the ascending aorta. A distal end of the resting portion is substantially directly opposite the ostium of the left main coronary artery and a portion of the distal end portion defines a generally rectilinear axis of support extending from the distal end of the resting portion across the ascending aorta to the ostium of the left main coronary artery.

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