Patent ID: 9629984
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61L,A61M

Claim:
1. A medical balloon for endoluminal location within a patient, the balloon including a first balloon layer consisting of impervious polymeric material, and a second balloon layer integrally coextruded with the outside of the first balloon layer, which second balloon layer consists of a combination of radiopaque and/or echogenic material and polymeric material, the polymeric material of the first balloon layer and the polymeric material of the second balloon layer mixing at the boundary between the first balloon layer and the second balloon layer, the second balloon layer including between 60 and 80% by weight of metallic radiopaque and/or metallic echogenic material, whereby the medical balloon is echogenic and/or radiopaque, and wherein the polymeric materials of the first and second balloon layers are the same.