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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1988
Samuel Shiber, Mundelein, IL (US);
Surgical Systems & Instruments, Inc., Mundelein, IL (US);
Abstract
An atherectomy system for removing an obstruction from within a patient's vessel, comprising a flexible guide-wire insertable into the vessel, a flexible catheter for coring and ingesting obstruction material, insertable into the vessel over the flexible guide-wire, the flexible catheter having a coring device at its distal end and coupling device for connecting it to a power source, at its proximal end, a sleeve in which the flexible catheter is slidably disposed, the sleeve having an elongated tongue extending from its distal end, the tongue defining inside the vessel an eccentrically biased trajectory for the coring device to move along.
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