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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Tada, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John Barritt, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Foster, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A catheter for removing an object in a body lumen includes a rotatable drive shaft including a spiral portion having a spiral shape near a distal end of the drive shaft, an outer tube surrounding the drive shaft, a cutting member connected to the distal end of the drive shaft to be rotated by the drive shaft with respect to a rotation axis and by which the object is cut, a guide wire tube attached to a distal portion of the outer tube, extending substantially straight along a center spiral axis of the spiral portion, and having a first guide wire lumen, and a distal tip attached to a distal end of the guide wire tube and having a second guide wire lumen extending parallel to the rotation axis and communicating with the first guide wire lumen.