Patent ID: 8070729

Claim:
A method for treating a lesion in a vessel, the method comprising: providing a device having a main elongated element, a balloon at a distal end of the device, an auxiliary elongated element wherein a distal end of the auxiliary elongated element is proximal to the balloon, and a wire attached to the device and positioned alongside the balloon and on an opposite side of the balloon as the auxiliary elongated element and a distal connecting element at a distal end of the balloon; inserting a tracking guidewire into the vessel; backloading the tracking guidewire into the distal connecting element; advancing the device over the tracking guidewire until the distal end of the device is adjacent to the lesion; advancing a second guidewire through the auxiliary elongated element; and inflating the balloon so as to push at least the attached wire and the tracking guidewire against a lesion in the vessel, said pushed attached wire and tracking guidewire each pushing against different sides of the lesion.