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Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm Gmbh

X-technologies Inc.

Thomas Ischinger

Ronald Jay Solar

Glen L Lieber

Stefan Hessel

A balloon catheter having a balloon with a shape for treating a vessel at a bifurcation, includes an oblique proximal end of the balloon, and a catheter shaft which is at least partially eccentric to a central axis of the balloon. Markers used for longitudinal and rotational alignment are included on the catheter shaft. A torque transmission element may be used for transmitting torque from the stiff proximal segment of the catheter to the distal flexible balloon segment of the catheter.

Balloon catheter for treatment of a vessel at a bifurcation

A stent having a main body with a proximal end and a distal end section having proximal and distal openings used for treatment of lesions in blood vessels and hollow organs, particularly at the ostium of side branches. The stent adapts to the anatomical configuration of a vessel branch by having at least one oblique end section in at least its expanded state. Truncated versions of the oblique end section are described as well.

Oblique stent

A balloon dilatation system is comprised of an elongated flexible advancement member which terminates in a tubular tracking member slidable over a guidewire. An inflatable balloon has proximal and distal ends, the proximal end communicating with an inflation channel, and the distal end attaching to the tracking member. The balloon portion is coextensive with but not attached to the advancement member.

Enhanced balloon dilatation system

A device (,) is disclosed to improve handling of a catheter guiding wire (,) at its proximal end. The device has a base body (,) with a longitudinal lumen (,) for receiving the guiding wire (,), frictional clamping means for clamping the guiding wire in the longitudinal lumen (,), and an extension (,) shaped as a hollow needle that extends in the direction of the longitudinal lumen (,) and that protrudes at the distal and/or proximal end of the base body and is movable in the longitudinal direction in relation thereto. The hollow needle-shaped extension is preferably telescopically collapsible and the clamping means are arranged at the proximal end of the base body (,) in the longitudinal direction.

Device for improving handling of guiding wires

Tubular stent

For the circumferential irradiation of objects, especially of vessels, hollow organs and solid tissue, by optical radiation of high intensity which is conducted via a flexible optical fiber, the optical radiation is coupled into the optical fiber at a predetermined angle (.beta..sub.1,.beta..sub.2) to the surface normal of the end face of the optical fiber such that it leaves the distant end of the optical fiber in the form of a conical surface.

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Munich, Germany

Thomas Ischinger