To provide a blood vessel therapeutic instrument which can effectively prevent a blood vessel restenosis from occurring by using the blood vessel therapeutic instrument in the case of a blood vessel forming technique such as a coronary plasty or the like, which can hence indwell in the blood vessel for a long period, and which is clinically extremely useful.
The blood vessel therapeutic instrument is covered with a dyestuff-containing resin which contains one or more types of a biocompatible dyestuff selected from the group consisting of a sulfonate-based azo dye, a phthalein-based dye, a triphenylmethane-based dye, a phenanthridinium-based dye, an acridine-based dye, a xanthene-based dye, a phenothiazin-based dye and a cyanine-based dye as the dyestuff.
UCHIDA HARUKO