Patent ID: 8167810

Claim:
A catheter device for treating a blockage of a vessel of a patient, comprising: a treatment catheter; a stent that is mounted in a tip of the treatment catheter, wherein the tip-mounted stent and the treatment catheter are configured as an integrated unit, wherein the treatment catheter consists of an integrated image monitoring system, wherein the image monitoring system comprises an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) catheter and an Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) catheter, wherein an image sensor of the OCT catheter is arranged in front of or behind an image sensor of the IVUS catheter in a longitudinal direction of the catheter device, wherein the catheter device further comprises: a transparent exit area arranged on a catheter shell of the treatment catheter or a drive shaft of the OCT or IVUS catheter for passing through an ultrasound wave of the IVUS catheter or a light of the OCT catheter, a hollow flexible drive shaft is provided in an inner area of the catheter shell within which a signal line of the OCT or the IVUS catheter is routed, and wherein the stent is arranged on an expandable balloon located in the tip of the treatment catheter that unfolds the stent, or wherein the stent is at least partly self-unfolding.