Guide wire and implantable electrode line

US7806836B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Kerstin Täubert · Berlin, DE
• Siegfried Voigt · Berlin, DE
• Erhard Flach · Berlin, DE
• Gernot Kolberg · Berlin, DE
• Gerhard Hahnke · Berlin, DE
• Agur Junge · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2003
• Grant date: Oct 5, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 29, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N2001/0578
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A guide wire for introducing an implantable electrode line, wherein the electrode line is particular a heart electrode line for intracardial sensing of cardiac actionpotentials and/or for electrical stimulation or defibrillation of the heart, and wherein the guide wire is adapted for interlocking with the electrode line, and wherein the guide wire comprises a deformation, in particular curved, wavy, V-shaped, zig-zag, or trapezoidal, enlarging the effective contact diameter of the guide wire to a value corresponding essentially to the inner diameter of a lumen of the electrode line or greater than this.