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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:
Sep. 18, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1989
Samuel Shiber, Woburn, MA (US);
Surgical Systems & Instruments, Inc., Mundelein, IL (US);
Abstract
An atherectomy system for cutting, ingesting and removing an obstruction from within a patient's artery, comprising a flexible guide-wire insertable into the artery, a flexible rotary-catheter rotatably disposed and slidable over the flexible guide-wire, a blade forming a distal end of the flexible rotary-catheter having teeth on its periphery which are bent inward, a continuous passage for ingesting the cut obstruction material between the flexible rotary-catheter and the flexible guide-wire, means at the proximal end of the flexible rotary-catheter for rotating it and positive displacement pump means connected to the continuous passage to pull the cut obstruction material proximally.
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