Title:
SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE FOR REPAIRING BLOOD VESSEL AND DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING THAT INTO BLOOD VESSEL
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001129096
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a blood vessel repairing material preventing a hump produced in a blood vessel from rupturing and carry out expansion or the like of a constricted blood vessel.
A flexible wire having flexibility at temperatures lower than a bloodstream temperature in a blood vessel, the wire is treated so as to have a shape memory at a transformation temperature equivalent to the bloodstream temperature in the blood vessel so that it may be transformed into a cylinder of a prescribed size suitable to treatment of a lesion.
Inventors:
KAWABE DAISUKE
Application Number:
JP31079099A
Publication Date:
May 15, 2001
Filing Date:
November 01, 1999
Export Citation:
Assignee:
IR KK
International Classes:
A61B17/00; A61F2/06; A61F2/07; A61M29/00; A61M29/02; (IPC1-7): A61M29/02; A61B17/00; A61F2/06; A61M29/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takefumi Tanaka (1 person outside)