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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
May. 25, 2021
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, JP;
Kazuhiro Noda, Hadano, JP;
Yuko Kirino, Hachioji, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A stent delivery device that can be inserted into an endoscope. The device includes a guide catheter including a guide tube, an operating wire, and a joint portion that joins the guide tube and the wire. The device also includes a pusher catheter including a first tube through which the wire is inserted and a second tube through which the guide tube is inserted. The device may include a bite prevention portion that can prevent the wire from biting into an inner surface of the second tube. In a state where a distal end of the pusher catheter protrudes from the endoscope channel and the channel includes a curved portion in a curved state, a proximal end of the guide tube, which includes the joint portion, and/or the bite prevention portion can be positioned proximal of a proximal end of the curved portion in the endoscope channel.