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Cutting Balloon

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Cutting Balloon
A proprietary angioplasty catheter in which microsurgical blades are mounted longitudinally on an angioplasty balloon and advanced through stenosed coronary arteries, exerting less pressure than that required in conventional balloon angioplasty
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Some of the key design features of the patent include: -- Guide wire does not ride inside the body of the catheter (no internal catheter guide wire lumen), -- Multiple guide wire location designs -- Wire riding in a channel through the balloon, -- Wire riding in closed lumen on outside of catheter body, -- Wire riding in open channel on outside of catheter body, -- Wire on the outside of the balloon (similar to a cutting balloon catheter) or between balloon segments.
CardioVascular announces patent notice of allowance for its catheter ... by BIOTECH Patent News
FDA cited the firm's promotion of the Cutting Balloon, a device for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty indicated for dilation of stenoses to improve myocardial perfusion, for failure to distinguish between peer-reviewed journal articles versus presentations and abstracts.
CDRH PROMO UNTITLED LETTERS by Warning Letter Bulletin
The Cutting Balloon uses micro-surgical blades to simultaneously incise and dilate narrowed arteries with less pressure than conventional balloon angioplasty.
INTERVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES DEBUTS CUTTING BALLOON TRAINING by Biotech Equipment Update
 
 
 
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