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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1994
Sidney Wolvek, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Datascope Investment Corp., Montvale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A guidewire delivery assist device including a cylindrical body, having a lumen extending axially therethrough from a proximal end to a distal end thereof, for receiving a guidewire, and an integral grip. The grip includes a plurality of flexible grip members extending longitudinally through at least a portion of the cylindrical body and forming a plurality of internal surface portions defining a portion of the lumen of the cylindrical body. The grip members and interior surface portions are flexibly collapsible in a radial direction of the cylindrical body and a guidewire resident in the lumen of the cylindrical body is frictionally engageable by the internal surface portions.