Patent ID: 8147427

Claim:
A guidewires twist releasing device, which releases twist of two or more guidewires passed through a guiding catheter, the device comprising: a long member that can be inserted into and pulled out from the guiding catheter; a first tubular body provided at the tip of the long member in such a manner as to be inserted into and pulled out from the guiding catheter and has a first lumen through which the two or more guidewires can be passed; a second tubular body that is disposed through a gap at a tip side relative to the first tubular body in an axial direction of the first tubular body in such a manner as to be inserted into and pulled out from the guiding catheter and has a second lumen through which the two or more guidewires can be passed; a connection member for connecting the first tubular body and the second tubular body and including the gap so as to define a notch between the first tubular body and the second tubular body, each of the first tubular body, the second tubular body and the connection member being formed into an integral tubular body so as to form a continuous guidewire insertion body through which the two or more guidewires can be continuously passed from the first lumen to the second lumen, the notch defined between the first tubular body and the second tubular body defining an opening in the tubular body, the second tubular body having a slit formed in an axial direction and can be elastically deformed so that the slit opens upon exertion of a predetermined force exerted on the second tubular body; and the connection member being able to be elastically deformed into a curved shape in an axial direction of the first tubular body, the slit opening of the second tubular body forming an exit for one of the two more guidewires from the second tubular body along a first guidewire pathway, the first guidewire pathway extending from the first lumen of the first tubular body to the slit opening and through the notch so that the one of the two or more guidewires is passed only along the first guidewire pathway through the first lumen of the first tubular body, and the one of the two or more guidewires is caused to travel from the first lumen of the first tubular body and along said first guidewire pathway to an intended blood vessel whereupon twisting of the two or more guidewires is released so that the one of the two or more guidewires is separated and untwisted from at least one or more of the two or more guidewires, respectively, upon pulling of the long member out of the catheter, the other of the two or more guidewires being passed through both the first lumen of the first tubular body and the second lumen of the second tubular body so as to travel along a second guidewire pathway diverging from the first pathway and extending from the first lumen of the first tubular body to the second lumen of the second tubular body and toward an intended blood vessel upon pulling of the long member out of the catheter.