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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1997
Kim Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Henry Bourang, Turlock, CA (US);
Uriel Hiram Chee, San Carlos, CA (US);
Target Therapeutics, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A coil-delivery device (,) for delivery of a vaso-occlusion coil (,) to a vascular target site via a catheter (,) is disclosed. The device includes a wire (,) adapted to be slidable received within the lumen (,) of a catheter (,) or an introducer (,), the wire (,) having at its distal end a stiff wavy wire (,) segment adapted to frictionally and releasably engage a vaso-occlusion coil (,) by the end-region inner lumen of the vaso-occlusion coil. Also disclosed are a catheter assembly employing the coil-delivery the device, and a method of releasably engaging a vaso-occlusion coil with the device.