Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Gregory Hopper

John Kantor

Susan Peterson

Tony Le

Janet Komatsu

Emily Schoenhoff

Eric Hallberg

Michael Baldwin

Steven Holt

Erik Svensson

Joseph Duffy

Ronan Cleary

Asim Malik

Sameer Singh

John Wilson Traxler

Traci Colgan

Marcel Fuhrer

Steven A Holmgren

Steven Holmgren

A tubular sheath for enclosing an expandable balloon attached to the distal portion of a catheter encloses and protects the expandable balloon. The tubular sheath is configured to be slidable and removable from the catheter. The tubular sheath may include a longitudinal splitting element that is removable as a result of a force applied to the longitudinal splitting element. The longitudinal splitting element is configured to split the wall of the tubular sheath in response to the force. Alternatively, the tubular sheath may include a gripping portion that has relatively poor cohesive strength to adjacent portions of the tubular sheath. The tubular sheath is configured to be removable in response to a force applied to the gripping portion.

Expandable balloon sheaths

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Brooklyn Park, MN, United States of America

Gregory Hopper