Patent ID: 6673100
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A medical device for retrieving embolic coils implanted in a patient, which comprises;an elongated device which is sized and shaped to slide through a microcatheter, said device having a flexible distal portion configured to enter a vessel of a patient, said distal portion comprising a distal collapsible arm with a latch member carried by the arm, said latch member having a free end; and said elongated device is configured to be pushed through a microcatheter, and the latch member is integrally struck from a length of material from which at least a portion of the arm had been formed and extends at an angle from the arm and toward a proximal portion of the arm, whereby the distal portion is configured to receive an embolic coil over its said free end and to engage the embolic coil to retrieve same from the vessel of the patient.