Interventional procedure expandable balloon expansion enabling system and method
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May 28, 2002
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Aug 9, 2000
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A system used in a blood vessel when an interventional procedure is being performed in a stenosed or occluded region, which is capable of enabling an expandable balloon to be expandable in a blood vessel, from unexpanded condition thereof wherein portions of the expandable balloon are in contact, while preventing the unexpanded in-contact portions of the balloon from sticking together during expansion and deployment of the expandable balloon. The system includes a catheter which is positionable in a blood vessel at the interventional procedure site., The system further includes an expandable member such as an expandable balloon, which is expandable and which may be deployed in the blood vessel at the interventional procedure site, which includes portions thereof which are in contact in the unexpanded condition, wherein the expandable balloon is capable of expanding while preventing the unexpanded in-contact portions thereof from sticking together during expansion and deployment thereof.
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