# K122573: HI-Torque Command Guide Wire Family

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Abbott Vascular, Inc.
- Decided: Nov 20, 2012 after 89 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: 7 generations back to K913353 (1991). 22 ancestors in all.
6 later devices descend from it; 5 cite it directly.
2 of 29 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K072460: HI-Torque Balance Middleweight Universal II Guide Wire, Abbott Vascular, Inc. (2008) Summary page 1.
- K021228: HI-Torque Balance, Balance Middleweight, Balance Heavyweight, Balance Trek and the Balance Middleweight Universal Guide, Guidant Corp. (2002) Summary page 1.
- K103101: HI-Torque Balance Middleweight Elite, Abbott Vascular-Cardiac Therapies (2011) Summary page 1.
- K101116: HI-Torque Pilot 50 and 150 Guide Wire with Hydrocoat Hydrophilic Coating, HI-Torque Whisper LS and MS Guide Wire with, Abbott Vascular-Cardiac Therapies (2010)
- K112957: HI-Torque Powerturn, Abbott Vascular-Cardiac Therapies (2011)

## Most influential descendants
- K240997: Hi-Torque Command 14 ST Guide Wire and Hi-Torque Command 14 MT Guide Wire (2024), 1 descendant of its own
- K152404: Hi-Torque Command 18 Guide Wire (2015), 1 descendant of its own
- K250552: Hi-Torque Command 14 ST Guide Wire and Hi-Torque Command 14 MT Guide Wire (2025), 0 descendants of its own
- K191502: Heraeus Peripheral Guidewire (2019), 0 descendants of its own
- K172073: Hi-Torque Command 18 Guide Wire (2017), 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 translumrinal angioplasty (PTA), in arteries such as the femoral, popliteal and infra-popliteal arteries. This guide wire may also be used with compatible stent devices during therapeutic procedures. The guide wire may also be used to reach and cross a target lesion, provide a pathway within a vessel structure, facilitate the substitution of one diagnostic or interventional device for another, and to distinguish the vasculature.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K122573
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology