摘要:
A nickel-titanium alloy having a large, superelastic operating temperature window or range. The nickel-titanium alloy includes at least an additional element such as platinum, palladium, manganese, boron, aluminum, tungsten, and/or zirconium. When processed through heat treat and area reduction steps, the resultant alloy exhibits a wide superelastic temperature operating window if the characteristics of the alloy when plotted on a temperature versus stress curve can be expressed as UP=(0.66 ksi/° C.)(T)+σ0, with R2≧0.98, wherein σ0 is the upper plateau stress of the alloy at about 0° C., R2 is the coefficient of determination, and UP is the upper plateau stress of the alloy.
摘要:
A catheter system for implanting an endoprosthesis at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter includes an elongated shaft outer member and a stent sheath distal portion and a self-expanding stent radially restrained in a collapsed configuration within the stent sheath distal portion. A balloon catheter dimensioned for relative axial movement within the shaft outer member has an elongated shaft having an inflation lumen and a device receiving lumen. A stent stop secured to the balloon catheter is reversibly radially expandable to deploy from a collapsed to a radially expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, the stent stop prevents longitudinal displacement of the stent. A balloon is located on a distal shaft section is releasably locked with respect to the shaft outer member and slidably disposed therein in an unlocked configuration.
摘要:
A catheter system and method for implanting an i such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.
摘要:
The present disclosure is directed to methods of manufacturing and passivating stents and other implantable medical devices including one or more attached radiopaque markers. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a metallic implantable medical device body without any radiopaque marker(s) attached thereto, primary electropolishing the device body without any markers attached thereto, attaching one or more radiopaque markers to the device body, and lightly electropolishing the device including device body and attached radiopaque markers. Light electropolishing removes no more than about 5 percent by weight of the device (i.e., the device body and attached marker(s)). Light electropolishing passivates the exposed surfaces of the device body and markers, while also providing electropolishing to the region of any welds where the radiopaque marker(s) attach to the device body.
摘要:
A system and method is described for electropolishing tubular metallic prostheses. In one aspect, the system provides a continuously changing set of points of contact between anode and prosthesis. In another aspect, the cathode is given a conical shape to correct for current concentrations that would otherwise exist and unevenly affect the amount of electropolishing over the length of the prosthesis.
摘要:
The present disclosure is directed to methods of manufacturing and passivating stents and other implantable medical devices including one or more attached radiopaque markers. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a metallic implantable medical device body without any radiopaque marker(s) attached thereto, primary electropolishing the device body without any markers attached thereto, attaching one or more radiopaque markers to the device body, and lightly electropolishing the device including device body and attached radiopaque markers. Light electropolishing removes no more than about 5 percent by weight of the device (i.e., the device body and attached marker(s)). Light electropolishing passivates the exposed surfaces of the device body and markers, while also providing electropolishing to the region of any welds where the radiopaque marker(s) attach to the device body.
摘要:
A catheter system and method for implanting an endoprosthesis such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.
摘要:
Superelastic and/or shape memory nickel-titanium alloys having an increased fatigue life that is superior to known nickel-titanium alloys are disclosed. The nickel-titanium alloys have a minimum fatigue life that may be at least about 10 million strain cycles at a strain of at least about 0.75. The minimum fatigue life may be due, at least in part, to the nickel-titanium alloy having at least one of an oxygen concentration of less than about 200 ppm, a carbon concentration of less than about 200 ppm, the absence of oxide-based and/or carbide-based inclusions having a size greater than about 5 microns (μm), the presence of an R-phase, or combinations of the foregoing. Articles manufactured from such fatigue-resistant nickel-titanium alloys can be more durable because they are more resistant to repetitive strain and crack propagation.
摘要:
A system and method is described for electropolising tubular metallic prostheses. In one aspect, the system provides a continuously changing set of points of contact between anode and prosthesis. In another aspect, the cathode is given a conical shape to correct for current concentrations that would otherwise exist and unevenly affect the amount of electropolishing over the length of the prosthesis.
摘要:
A catheter system and method for implanting an endoprosthesis such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.