CATHETER FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAMENT CARRIER

摘要

A catheter assembly for implanting a stent assembly having two expandable supporting rings with a sleeve-like element therebetween, particularly a drug carrier, comprising a guide wire, a catheter body carrying the stent assembly with at the distal end two pairs of abutment elements for the supporting rings and a protective sleeve assembly which surrounds this arrangement, in which the guide wire can be coupled with a first, distal sleeve of the protecting sleeve and this sleeve assembly comprises this first distal sleeve around the distal expandable ring of the stent assembly and a second, adjoining proximal sleeve, movable over the catheter body towards the proximal end thereof.