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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2003
Tracee Eidenschink, Wayzata, MN (US);
The Thomas Trinh Tran, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
Tracee Eidenschink, Wayzata, MN (US);
The Thomas Trinh Tran, Coon Rapids, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A stent delivery assembly comprises a balloon catheter with a rotatable assembly disposed thereabout. The rotatable assembly comprises a rotatable sheath which in a reduced state is freely rotatable about the medical balloon and when in the expanded state is frictionally engaged by the expanded balloon. A secondary guide wire housing is at least partially engaged to the rotatable sheath. A stent may be disposed about at least a portion of the rotatable sheath and at least a portion of the secondary guide wire housing so that a distal end portion of the secondary guide wire housing exits the flow path of the stent through one of the plurality of cell openings which the stent defines.