Abbott Laboratories Vascular Enterprises Limited

Cti Vascular Ag

Martin Rickert

Marc Gianotti

Ulf Fritz

Michael Jetter

Dragana Gajic

Boris Warnack

Sabina Silva

Andreas Bodmer

Valentin Nickel

Dragana Margeta

The current document is directed to length-adjustable catheters and methods that employ length-adjustable catheters to treat malformations, constrictions, obstructions, lesions, and blockages within patients' blood vessels. The length of the shaft of a length-adjustable catheter, to which the current application is directed, can be adjusted over a range of lengths prior to and during medical procedures. In many implementations, length adjustment is accompanied by indications, to the medical provider, of the extent of a length adjustment. The indications may include one or more of visual markings, haptic feedback, radio-opaque markings, and/or other types of indications. In many implementations, the variable-length mechanism of the length-adjustable catheter is mechanically lockable following length adjustment.

Length-adjustable catheter and method that employs a length-adjustable catheter to treat vascular pathologies

A balloon catheter comprising a catheter tube, an inflatable and deflatable balloon fixed to the catheter tube and a refolding device for folding the balloon onto the catheter tube during balloon deflation, wherein the refolding device includes at least one flap arrangement being fixed on the catheter tube and being disposed within the balloon.

Balloon catheter

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Martin Rickert