ABLATION CATHETER WITH BALLOON

摘要

The present invention has the objective of providing an ablation catheter with balloon which achieves together a decrease in diameter of the balloon at balloon contraction time and increase in reliability of a thermocouple temperature sensor, and simultaneously is resistant to being affected by a heating liquid delivered to within the balloon and is capable of controlling balloon surface temperature with high precision. The present invention is an ablation catheter with balloon which is provided with a shaft having a lumen, a balloon such that the lumen is in communication with the interior of the balloon, and a high-frequency current-delivering electrode which is formed by winding a high-frequency power supply lead wire into a coil around the shaft while sandwiching a temperature sensor lead wire between the high-frequency power supply lead wire and the shaft so that the temperature sensor lead wire is fixed along the long axis direction of the shaft. A thermocouple temperature sensor is formed at a point where the high-frequency power supply lead wire and the temperature sensor lead wire, which configure the high-frequency current-delivering electrode, first come into tactile contact as viewed from the rear end side in the long axis direction.