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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2023
Tim A. Fischell, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
David R. Fischell, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Tim A. Fischell, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
David R. Fischell, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Abstract
A rapid exchange guide wire system for rapid delivery of a guide wire to a blood vessel. The system has a main guide wire and rapid a rapid exchange tube attached to the main guide wire near a distal end of the main guide wire. The rapid exchange tube has a lumen which extends in a longitudinal direction and is configured to permit the rapid exchange tube to be reversibly displaceable in the longitudinal direction over a medical device having a cylindrical portion The medical device may be a guide wire, balloon angioplasty catheter, stent delivery catheter, atherectomy catheter, intravascular ultrasound catheter, blood flow measurement wire, optical coherence tomography catheter, or a stent-on-wire catheter.