Nihon University

Daisuke Kawabe

Satoshi Saito

Noboru Fukuda

Shinichiro Yokoyama

A wire for insertion into intravital tracts applicable even to small-diameter tracts while securing the stream in the tract is to be provided. A capture filteris disposed at the tip of a principal wireconsisting of steel filaments. The capture filteris configured of four support wiresand a basket-shaped filter bodyconsisting of a meshed material. The filaments constituting the support wiresand those constituting the filter bodyare integrally formed and consist of a superelastic alloy.

Wire for inserting into biological duct

To provide infusion therapy that can effectively transluminally deliver drugs or the like to a target spot without invading areas other than a diseased area. The infusion therapy is for administering a drug, cells or the like, or inserting a treatment instrument into the target diseased area. A blood vessel area including a bifurcated blood vessel connecting to the diseased area is occluded at the distal and the proximal region thereof to form an occluded area, and the drugs or the like are pumped and supplied to the occluded area, which causes the drugs or the like to flow retrogressively and retentively in the bifurcated blood vessel connecting in the occluded area, and be infused and administered to the diseased area.

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Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Kawabe