MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota -- Vascular Solutions, Inc. announces the immediate availability of the SuperCross™ microcatheter.  The SuperCross offers superior crossability, flexibility, and exceptional guidewire support during coronary and peripheral catheterization procedures.

The SuperCross is 0.014” guidewire compatible and is available in 130cm or 150cm lengths.  The distal 40cm has a hydrophilic coating, reducing friction during deployment, and the catheter tapers to 1.8F at the distal tip, for navigating small, tortuous vessels and crossing tight lesions. A full length stainless steel braid provides exceptional flexibility, excellent pushability, and kink resistance.  The SuperCross’ internal PTFE liner provides superb guidewire movement and the tapered inner lumen a smooth transition during wire delivery for optimal guidewire control.  The fully embedded gold marker band on the distal tip delivers brilliant radiopacity, enabling precise device placement, especially beneficial during complex interventions. 

The SuperCross is intended to be used in conjunction with steerable guidewires to access discrete regions of the coronary and/or peripheral vasculature, and it may be used to facilitate placement and exchange of guidewires and other interventional devices and to subselectively infuse/deliver diagnostic and therapeutic agents. The sterile, single use SuperCross microcatheter is available in the United States and Europe.

Source: Vascular Solutions, Inc.