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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1998
Thomas Ischinger, D-81927 Munchen, DE;
Other;
Abstract
A device (,) is disclosed to improve handling of a catheter guiding wire (,) at its proximal end. The device has a base body (,) with a longitudinal lumen (,) for receiving the guiding wire (,), frictional clamping means for clamping the guiding wire in the longitudinal lumen (,), and an extension (,) shaped as a hollow needle that extends in the direction of the longitudinal lumen (,) and that protrudes at the distal and/or proximal end of the base body and is movable in the longitudinal direction in relation thereto. The hollow needle-shaped extension is preferably telescopically collapsible and the clamping means are arranged at the proximal end of the base body (,) in the longitudinal direction.