Claims
- 1. A method for delivering a stent into a stenosis in a vessel in a patient by the use of a stent delivery catheter and a single guide wire having an adjustable support characteristic ranging from floppy to stiff comprising advancing the guide wire in the vessel of the patient while its distal extremity is floppy until the distal extremity has been advanced into the stenosis in the vessel which is to be treated, stiffening the distal extremity of the guide wire, advancing the stent delivery catheter over the guide wire while the distal extremity is stiff, advancing the stent into the stenosis and withdrawing the stent delivery catheter and the guide wire from the vessel of the patient.
Parent Case Info
This is a division, of application Ser. No. 08/585,885, filed Jan. 11, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,697,380.
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