Patent ID: 8231607
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A suction catheter made of a flexible lengthy body with a lumen formed therein, and used in a treatment where a leading-end side of the suction catheter is adapted to be inserted into a blood vessel, where a base-end portion is connected to a suction apparatus, and where the lumen is vacuumed by means of the suction apparatus adapted to suck out and retrieve an object in the blood vessel, the suction catheter comprising: a catheter main body made of the flexible lengthy body; a leading-end case portion positioned at a leading-end portion of the catheter main body and including an opening for retrieving the object; and object cutting means that is partially exposed through the opening, and is movable in the axial direction within the leading-end case portion, wherein the object cutting means includes: while the object cutting means is in operation, the object that sticks to an internal wall of the blood vessel is cut off, at the opening of the leading-end case portion, by means of the cutting area of the cutting portion.