The Spectranetics Corporation

Premia Spine Ltd.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Ron Sacher

Dan Rottenberg

Abi Zakay

Ofer Vikinsky

Ilan Lemerovich

Hypo-tube based support catheter () for treating blood vessels, such as below the knee (BTK) blood vessels and other blood vessels (e.g., coronary, pediatric), which are partially or totally occluded. The tip of the support catheter () of the invention is shapeable to any desired shape before the insertion of the device into the blood vessel. The disclosed device enables improved angioplasty treatment of blood vessels, especially with a retrograde approach.

Hypotube based support catheter

A surgical tool adaptor includes a distal interface member and a handle. The distal interface member includes a connecting element for connecting to a surgical tool. A K-wire connector is disposed in a central passageway for receiving therethrough a K-wire. The K-wire connector includes a locking element for locking the K-wire. A clutch mechanism is operatively connected to the distal interface member and to the K-wire connector, wherein in a first orientation of the clutch mechanism, the distal interface member and the K-wire connector move together, and in a second orientation of the clutch mechanism, the distal interface member is declutched from the K-wire connector, so that in the first orientation movement of the handle moves the distal interface member and the K-wire connector together, and in the second orientation the distal interface member and the K-wire connector move independently of each other.

K-wire adaptor assembly

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Herzelia, Israel

Ron Sacher