# K091825: HI-Torque Progress Guide Wire Family

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Abbott Vascular, Inc.
- Decided: Sep 25, 2009 after 98 days
- Product code: DQX (Wire, Guide, Catheter)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 870.1330
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 5 generations back to K913353 (1991). 12 ancestors in all.
9 later devices descend from it; 3 cite it directly.
1 of 22 devices in its family (counting itself) has a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K030549: HI-Torque Pilot 50 Guide Wire with Hydrocoat Hydrophilic Coating, HI-Torque Pilot 150 Guide Wire with Hydrocoat Hydrophg, Guidcorp (2003) Summary page 1.
- K060449: HI-Torque Advance and Advance Lite Guide Wire, Guidant Corporation (2006) Summary page 1.
- K072460: HI-Torque Balance Middleweight Universal II Guide Wire, Abbott Vascular, Inc. (2008) Summary page 1.
- (no number) Asahi guide wire families: named in the summary without a submission number

## Most influential descendants
- K101011: HI-Torque Balance Middleweight Universal (2010), 4 descendants of its own
- K152709: HI-Torque Balance (2015), 2 descendants of its own
- K123067: Progress Guide Wire Family, Pilot Guide Wire Family (2013), 2 descendants of its own
- K193126: HI-TORQUE InfilTrac Guide Wire Family (2019), 1 descendant of its own
- K201834: HI-TORQUE PROCEED Guide Wire Family (2020), 0 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
This HI-TORQUE guide wire is intended to facilitate the placement of balloon dilatation catheters during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). This guide wire may also be used with compatible stent devices during therapeutic procedures.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K091825
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology