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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1998
Menno Kalmann, PD Elspect, NL;
Franciscus Laureus Moll, La Bosch en Duin, NL;
Thomas J. Fogarty, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Kenneth Mollenauer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Brian A. Glynn, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Richard O. Murphy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jay A. Lenker, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Brian J. Cox, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vascular Architects, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A remote endarterectomy ring stripper (,) includes an elongate shaft (,), having distal (,) and proximal (,) ends, an intima stripping ring (,) mounted to the distal end of the elongate shaft and an intima cutter assembly having an intima cutting element (,), at the stripping ring, operated by a user-operated cutting element actuator (,). Movement of the cutting element severs a length of intima (,), which has been separated from the wall (,) of the blood vessel (,), passing through the stripping ring.