Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Collection method
A medical device and collection method are disclosed which can effectively aspirate and remove substances collected inside a filter, and prevent the collected substances from dropping down from a filter portion. The collection method includes inserting a medical device having a filter portion in a contracted state into the living body lumen, installing the filter portion in the living body lumen by bringing the filter portion into the expanded state; collecting the substances inside the living body lumen using the filter portion; inserting an aspiration catheter which applies an aspiration force to a distal opening via a lumen formed inside the aspiration catheter, into the living body lumen along the shaft portion, and fitting the distal opening into the concave portion of the filter portion; aspirating the substances collected inside the concave portion using the aspiration catheter; and removing the filter portion from the inside of the living body lumen.
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Tomonori Junichi Taiga
Hatta Kobayashi Nakano