Patent ID: 7235092
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. An assembly for delivering a medical device via a patient's vascular system, the assembly comprising: (a) a medical device; (b) a guidewire having a guidewire body, the guidewire body comprising a first thin-film of a first biocompatible metal formed by a vacuum deposition technique; and (c) a catheter-sheath having generally tubular catheter-sheath body, the catheter-sheath body comprising a second thin-film of a second biocompatible metal formed by a vacuum deposition technique, the catheter-sheath body defining a catheter-sheath lumen; wherein the guidewire is positioned coaxially within the lumen of the catheter-sheath, and wherein the medical device is concentrically positioned within a distal portion of the catheter-sheath lumen and intermediate the catheter-sheath body and the guidewire body, thereby forming the assembly, wherein at least one of the first thin-film and the second thin-film comprises a plurality of layers.