Patent ID: 7691081
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A catheter device for a more effective and safer method of guide wire positioning and preventing vessel trauma for the practice of diagnostic vascular treatment and/or therapeutic vascular treatment of a subject's vasculature having a lesion, said device comprising: a guide catheter comprising a shaft having a proximal portion and a distal portion; said guide wire disposed in said guide catheter shaft having a proximal portion and a distal portion, said guide wire adapted to transfer beyond the lesion during at least a portion of the vascular treatment and/or therapeutic vascular treatment; a first expandable component disposed on said guide wire to be positioned distally beyond the lesion during at least a portion of the vascular treatment and/or therapeutic vascular treatment, said first expandable component being adapted to anchor said guide wire to mitigate and/or prevent loss of guide wire position during at least a portion of the vascular treatment and/or therapeutic vascular treatment to anchor: distal tip disposed or said distal portion of said guide wire: a second expandable component disposed at said distal tip of said guide wire, said second expandable component adapted to prevent and/or mitigate trauma to the vasculature during at least a portion of the vascular treatment and/or therapeutic vascular treatment; and wherein: