Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Maruho Hatsujyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Maruho Hatsujyo Kogyo., Ltd.

Keiji Okada

Takashi Kaneko

Takeshi Kanamaru

Masahiro Takeuchi

Katsuya Goto

An intravascular obstruction removing wire includes an elongate wire body, at least two non-branched wire portions having distal ends and proximal ends which are connected to a distal end of the wire main body, and a plurality of filament portions extending across the wire portions. The non-branched wire portions and the filament portions form a trapping portion. The trapping portion is deformable from a large-diameter state in which the non-branched portions branch to the distal end of the wire body forward in different directions and the filament portions are separated from each other, so that a space surrounded by the non-branched wire portions and the filament portions is formed to trap therein an obstruction in a blood vessel, to a small-diameter state in which the non-branched wire portions are positioned so that a distance between the wire portions is smaller than that of the wire portions in the large-diameter state.

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Kameoka, Japan

Keiji Okada