CA2238134C - Pressure monitoring guide wire and method for manufacturing such a guide wire - Google Patents
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- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
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- A61M2025/09066—Basic structures of guide wires having a coil without a core possibly combined with a sheath
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Abstract
The pressure monitoring guide wire (1) comprises an elongated tube (1) made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy. The distal end portion (3) of tube (1) has transverse openings (6) formed through wall (5) of tube (1) for the entry of pressure waves into lumen (4).
The distal end portion (3) of tube (1) which encompasses the openings (6), is malleable. A thermal treatment is made to the distal end portion (3) of a guide wire formed of an elongated tube (1) of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion (3) with transverse openings (6).
The distal end portion (3) of tube (1) which encompasses the openings (6), is malleable. A thermal treatment is made to the distal end portion (3) of a guide wire formed of an elongated tube (1) of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion (3) with transverse openings (6).
Description
Pressure Monitoring Guide Wire And Method For Manufacturing Such A Guide Wire This invention relates to a pressure monitoring guide wire comprising an elongated tube made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end _ portion with transverse openings for the entry of pressure waves into the tube. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a guide wire.
The monitoring of fluid pressures during intravascular procedures such as angioplasty, angiography of valvuloplasty, gives a valuable information to the cardiologist to assess both coronary and myocardial flow reserve and collateral blood flow.
Attempts have bees made to develop hollow guide wires which allow for the measurement of the fluid pressure at the distal end of a catheter from the pro~cimal end thereof. Such guide wires comprise a plurality of side openings in the distal portion of the tubular shaft to alloX blood pressure waves to propagate to a pressure sensor connected to the proximal portion of the shaft. A
problem with such pressure monitoring guide wires is to provide an uninterrupted lumen throughout the shaft which has to be highly flexible to conform with tortuous pathways of the blood vessels. However, the shaft must also have a reasonably high stiffness to assurE:
pushability and torque transmission thereto. And furthermore, the shaft must have a good kink resistance to avoid the risk of constrictions which would affect the advance of pressure waves through the lumen.
Pressure monitoring guide wires have been made of an elongated_tube made of one piece of'elastie material, preferably a superelastic Nickel Titanium alloy, With transverse openings at a distal end portion thereof for the entry of pressure waves into the tube. That kind of pressure monitoring guide Wires avoids the connection of different materials for making the tube, and provides a good flexibility, with the required stiffness for pushability and torque transmission and kinking resistance, but the difficulty is that the transverse openings result in a weakening in the cross-section of the bent tube, which causes a high potential to kinking in the area provided with the openings. Kinking occurs when the cross-section of the bent tube undergoes a drastic deformation which results in a constriction of the inner lumen by folding of the inner wall of the tube. In other words, the tube tends to bend back upon itself and such a situation particularly occurs when attempting to pass the guide wire through a calcified lesion, or a mostly occluded vessel section, or still a very tortuous vascular section. Once kinking occurs, pressure waves signals are strongly affected and the guide wire has to be discarded because it cannot be adequately straightened, either because of the deformation or because the cardiologist can usually not spend time to attempt to straighten the kinked guide wire. Consequently, the vascular procedure has to be interrupted and a new pressure monitoring guide wire selected, reinserted and manipulated to be advanced to the target site. This of course increases the risk of trauma to the blood vessel.
EP 0738495 A1 shows a pressure measuring guide wire as referred to hereinabove. The pressure measuring guide wire comprises an elongated tubular shaft made of an elastic Nickel Titanium alloy the distal area of which comprises a plurality of transverse elongated slots formed in the tubular shaft wall for pressure medium entry, whereby the resistance to kinking of that area of the shaft differs from that of the proximal area of the shaft which is devoid of slots. In one embodiment, the wall forming the shaft has at the location of the slots a gxeater thickness than the thickness at the proximal area of the shaft to compensate the difference in kinking resistance between proximal and distal areas of the shaft. In another embodiment, the wall forming the shaft has the same thickness at the location of the slots and at the proximal area of the shaft, and a coil is located inside the shaft under the slots for supporting the slotted wall arid thereby compensate the difference is kinking resistance between the slotted portion of the shaft and the portion thereof which is devoid of slots: a core member is located within the ZO coil with proximal and distal ends formed to abut longitudinally with the corresponding ends of the coil in order to stiffen the coil. In a variant, the core member may have its proximal end extended by a wire which goes proximally along and out of the lumen of the shaft, whereby the coil may be placed under the slots only for insertion of the guide wire to assure resistance to kinking of the slotted area, and When the guide wire is properly located the supporting coil may be withdrawn out of the guide wire by pulling the core in order to maintain the shaft lumen free of obstructions for pressure measurements.
The monitoring of fluid pressures during intravascular procedures such as angioplasty, angiography of valvuloplasty, gives a valuable information to the cardiologist to assess both coronary and myocardial flow reserve and collateral blood flow.
Attempts have bees made to develop hollow guide wires which allow for the measurement of the fluid pressure at the distal end of a catheter from the pro~cimal end thereof. Such guide wires comprise a plurality of side openings in the distal portion of the tubular shaft to alloX blood pressure waves to propagate to a pressure sensor connected to the proximal portion of the shaft. A
problem with such pressure monitoring guide wires is to provide an uninterrupted lumen throughout the shaft which has to be highly flexible to conform with tortuous pathways of the blood vessels. However, the shaft must also have a reasonably high stiffness to assurE:
pushability and torque transmission thereto. And furthermore, the shaft must have a good kink resistance to avoid the risk of constrictions which would affect the advance of pressure waves through the lumen.
Pressure monitoring guide wires have been made of an elongated_tube made of one piece of'elastie material, preferably a superelastic Nickel Titanium alloy, With transverse openings at a distal end portion thereof for the entry of pressure waves into the tube. That kind of pressure monitoring guide Wires avoids the connection of different materials for making the tube, and provides a good flexibility, with the required stiffness for pushability and torque transmission and kinking resistance, but the difficulty is that the transverse openings result in a weakening in the cross-section of the bent tube, which causes a high potential to kinking in the area provided with the openings. Kinking occurs when the cross-section of the bent tube undergoes a drastic deformation which results in a constriction of the inner lumen by folding of the inner wall of the tube. In other words, the tube tends to bend back upon itself and such a situation particularly occurs when attempting to pass the guide wire through a calcified lesion, or a mostly occluded vessel section, or still a very tortuous vascular section. Once kinking occurs, pressure waves signals are strongly affected and the guide wire has to be discarded because it cannot be adequately straightened, either because of the deformation or because the cardiologist can usually not spend time to attempt to straighten the kinked guide wire. Consequently, the vascular procedure has to be interrupted and a new pressure monitoring guide wire selected, reinserted and manipulated to be advanced to the target site. This of course increases the risk of trauma to the blood vessel.
EP 0738495 A1 shows a pressure measuring guide wire as referred to hereinabove. The pressure measuring guide wire comprises an elongated tubular shaft made of an elastic Nickel Titanium alloy the distal area of which comprises a plurality of transverse elongated slots formed in the tubular shaft wall for pressure medium entry, whereby the resistance to kinking of that area of the shaft differs from that of the proximal area of the shaft which is devoid of slots. In one embodiment, the wall forming the shaft has at the location of the slots a gxeater thickness than the thickness at the proximal area of the shaft to compensate the difference in kinking resistance between proximal and distal areas of the shaft. In another embodiment, the wall forming the shaft has the same thickness at the location of the slots and at the proximal area of the shaft, and a coil is located inside the shaft under the slots for supporting the slotted wall arid thereby compensate the difference is kinking resistance between the slotted portion of the shaft and the portion thereof which is devoid of slots: a core member is located within the ZO coil with proximal and distal ends formed to abut longitudinally with the corresponding ends of the coil in order to stiffen the coil. In a variant, the core member may have its proximal end extended by a wire which goes proximally along and out of the lumen of the shaft, whereby the coil may be placed under the slots only for insertion of the guide wire to assure resistance to kinking of the slotted area, and When the guide wire is properly located the supporting coil may be withdrawn out of the guide wire by pulling the core in order to maintain the shaft lumen free of obstructions for pressure measurements.
EP 0750879 A1 also shows a pressure measuring guide wire made of an elongated tubular shaft made of an elastic Nickel Titanium alloy. The distal area of the tubular shaft is provided with transverse slots for pressure medium entry into the lumen of the shaft. A stiffening means formed by an independent wire removably extends through the lumen of the shaft and proximally of the proximal area of the shaft. Accordingly, the shaft may be devised as a tubing with extremely thin walls the flexibility and floppiness and resistance to kinking of which can be selected at will, and the independent wire may be withdrawn from the shaft for pressure measurements to take advantage of a lumen free of any obstruction.
It is an object of this invention to propose a pressure monitoring guide wire which is easy and cheap to manufacture while having excellent qualities of pushability and resistance to kinking, and Which allows a smooth advance of pressure waves in a very low profile guide wire configuration.
Still a further object of the invention is a method for manufacturing the pressure monitoring guide wire which is easy to implement and fully controllable.
Towards fulfilling these and other objects, the invention complies with the claims.
Accordingly, when a pressure monitoring guide wire comprising an elongated tube made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion with transverse openings for the entry of pressure waves into the tube is characterized in that said distal end portion of the tube is more malleable than as adjacent portion of the tube, the weakening 5 effect on the tube resulting from the transverse openings is largely compensated. The distal end portion of the tube is more capable of undergoing plastic deformation without rupture and, therefore, it can be bent along a very small bending radius without constricting the inner lumen by folding of the inner wall of the tube. As the tube is stressed by bending, the pliable material deforms smoothly rather than building up peak stresses, the risk of kinking at the openings area becomes remote and the pressure monitoring guide wire may make its way through calcified lesions or mostly occluded vessel sections or still very tortuous vascular sections. The elongated tube retains a very high flexibility at any location provided With openings.
There is no more need for wall overthickness or for wall supporting cores or coils to compensate a loss of resistance to kinking due to pressure waves entry openings and there are no transitions or obstructions within the lumen of the tube which would interfere on the passage of fluid pressure pulses. The pressure monitoring guide wire allows the passage of strong detectable signals, even when the pressure monitoring guide wire has a very low wall and profile configuration .
The malleable portion of the tube may have an outer diameter reduced with respect to a portion of the tube immediately proximal thereto to further raise b bendability at the area of the transverse openings towards reaching very narrow and tortuous vessel configurations.
When the reduced diameter portion joins gradually the portion of the tube immediately proximal thereto, flexibility increases stepwise at the transition of the two diameters of the tube.
By the steps of forming an elongated tube of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion with transverse openings and thermally treating said distal end portion of the tube, the critical stress that triggers a material rupture is shifted. The strain at which rupture occurs increases and, therefore, the distal end portion of the tube can be bent according to a smaller radius. As a result, the phenomenon of kinking becomes remote.
Preferably, the distal end portion of the tube is treated at about 450° C during at least a quarter of an hour, which is easy to achieve and control with available equipment.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become readily apparent from the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings which show, diagrammatically and by way of example only, a preferred but still illustrative embodiment of the invention.
Figure 1 is a fragmentary centerline sectional view of the tubular shaft of a pressure monitoring guide wire according to the invention.
The pressure monitoring guide wire shown in Figure 1 comprises an elongated tube 1 made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy.
The tube 1 has a proximal end portion 2 and a distal end portion 3.
A lumen 4 extends through the tube 1 and the proximal end portion 2 is intended to be connected to a pressure measuring equipment (not shown) as common in the art.
The lumen 4 is defined by the wall 5 of the tube 1.
The distal end portion 3 of the tube 1 has three transverse openings 6 formed therein through the wall 5 for the entry of pressure waves into lumen 4. The transverse openings 6, in the form of elongated slots, are distributed along a helical path by 120° shifts in the transverse direction 7.
The distal end portion 3 of the tube 1 is for termination into a flexible tip assembly (not shown), for example as shown in EP 0 738 495 A1.
The distal end portion 3 of tube l, which encompasses the openings 6, is malleable.
The malleable portion 3 of the tube 1 has an outer diameter 8 which is reduced with respect to the outer diameter 9 of the portion 12 of tube 1 immediately prosimal thereto. Junction of reduced diameter portion 3 to larger diameter portion 12 is effected gradually by a frustum 13.
Advantageously, the manufacturing of the pressure monitoring guide wire 1 may be obtained by for~o~.ng the elongated tube 1 of one piece of~elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having the.di.stal end portion 3 with transverse openings 6, and thermally treating the distal end portion 3 of tube 1.
The thermal treatment may be achieved in an oven (not shown) and, preferably, the thermal treatment will be at about 450° C during at least fifteen minutes.
Variants are available.
For example, the openings 6 may be different in shape and geometrical arrangement.
Malleability may be extended proximally of the distal end portion 3 of tube l, whereas thermal treatment will be estended accordingly.
Duration and timing of the thermal treatment may be different .
The reduced diameter configuration may be not be limited to the malleable portion of the tube. Similarly., the malleable portion of the.tube may have the same diameter as the proximal portion of the tube.
It is an object of this invention to propose a pressure monitoring guide wire which is easy and cheap to manufacture while having excellent qualities of pushability and resistance to kinking, and Which allows a smooth advance of pressure waves in a very low profile guide wire configuration.
Still a further object of the invention is a method for manufacturing the pressure monitoring guide wire which is easy to implement and fully controllable.
Towards fulfilling these and other objects, the invention complies with the claims.
Accordingly, when a pressure monitoring guide wire comprising an elongated tube made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion with transverse openings for the entry of pressure waves into the tube is characterized in that said distal end portion of the tube is more malleable than as adjacent portion of the tube, the weakening 5 effect on the tube resulting from the transverse openings is largely compensated. The distal end portion of the tube is more capable of undergoing plastic deformation without rupture and, therefore, it can be bent along a very small bending radius without constricting the inner lumen by folding of the inner wall of the tube. As the tube is stressed by bending, the pliable material deforms smoothly rather than building up peak stresses, the risk of kinking at the openings area becomes remote and the pressure monitoring guide wire may make its way through calcified lesions or mostly occluded vessel sections or still very tortuous vascular sections. The elongated tube retains a very high flexibility at any location provided With openings.
There is no more need for wall overthickness or for wall supporting cores or coils to compensate a loss of resistance to kinking due to pressure waves entry openings and there are no transitions or obstructions within the lumen of the tube which would interfere on the passage of fluid pressure pulses. The pressure monitoring guide wire allows the passage of strong detectable signals, even when the pressure monitoring guide wire has a very low wall and profile configuration .
The malleable portion of the tube may have an outer diameter reduced with respect to a portion of the tube immediately proximal thereto to further raise b bendability at the area of the transverse openings towards reaching very narrow and tortuous vessel configurations.
When the reduced diameter portion joins gradually the portion of the tube immediately proximal thereto, flexibility increases stepwise at the transition of the two diameters of the tube.
By the steps of forming an elongated tube of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion with transverse openings and thermally treating said distal end portion of the tube, the critical stress that triggers a material rupture is shifted. The strain at which rupture occurs increases and, therefore, the distal end portion of the tube can be bent according to a smaller radius. As a result, the phenomenon of kinking becomes remote.
Preferably, the distal end portion of the tube is treated at about 450° C during at least a quarter of an hour, which is easy to achieve and control with available equipment.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become readily apparent from the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings which show, diagrammatically and by way of example only, a preferred but still illustrative embodiment of the invention.
Figure 1 is a fragmentary centerline sectional view of the tubular shaft of a pressure monitoring guide wire according to the invention.
The pressure monitoring guide wire shown in Figure 1 comprises an elongated tube 1 made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy.
The tube 1 has a proximal end portion 2 and a distal end portion 3.
A lumen 4 extends through the tube 1 and the proximal end portion 2 is intended to be connected to a pressure measuring equipment (not shown) as common in the art.
The lumen 4 is defined by the wall 5 of the tube 1.
The distal end portion 3 of the tube 1 has three transverse openings 6 formed therein through the wall 5 for the entry of pressure waves into lumen 4. The transverse openings 6, in the form of elongated slots, are distributed along a helical path by 120° shifts in the transverse direction 7.
The distal end portion 3 of the tube 1 is for termination into a flexible tip assembly (not shown), for example as shown in EP 0 738 495 A1.
The distal end portion 3 of tube l, which encompasses the openings 6, is malleable.
The malleable portion 3 of the tube 1 has an outer diameter 8 which is reduced with respect to the outer diameter 9 of the portion 12 of tube 1 immediately prosimal thereto. Junction of reduced diameter portion 3 to larger diameter portion 12 is effected gradually by a frustum 13.
Advantageously, the manufacturing of the pressure monitoring guide wire 1 may be obtained by for~o~.ng the elongated tube 1 of one piece of~elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having the.di.stal end portion 3 with transverse openings 6, and thermally treating the distal end portion 3 of tube 1.
The thermal treatment may be achieved in an oven (not shown) and, preferably, the thermal treatment will be at about 450° C during at least fifteen minutes.
Variants are available.
For example, the openings 6 may be different in shape and geometrical arrangement.
Malleability may be extended proximally of the distal end portion 3 of tube l, whereas thermal treatment will be estended accordingly.
Duration and timing of the thermal treatment may be different .
The reduced diameter configuration may be not be limited to the malleable portion of the tube. Similarly., the malleable portion of the.tube may have the same diameter as the proximal portion of the tube.
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1. A pressure monitoring guide wire comprising an elongated tube (1) made of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium alloy having a distal end portion (3) with transverse openings (6) for the entry of pressure waves into the tube, characterized in that said distal end portion (3) of the tube (1) is more malleable than an adjacent portion of the tube.
2. A pressure monitoring guide wire according to claim 1, wherein the malleable portion (3) of the tube (1) has an outer diameter (8) reduced with respect to a portion (12, 13) of the tube (1) immediately proximal thereto.
3. A pressure monitoring guide wire according to claim 2, wherein the reduced diameter portion (3) joins gradually (13) the portion (12) of the tube (1) immediately proximal thereto.
4. A method for manufacturing the guide wire according to claim 1, characterized by the steps of forming an elongated tube (1) of one piece of elastic Nickel Titanium-alloy having a distal end portion (3) with transverse openings (6), and thermally treating said distal end portion (3) of the tube (1).
5. A method according to claim 4, wherein said distal end portion (3) of the tube (1) is thermally treated at about 450° C during at least fifteen minutes.
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