Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bilumen guide catheters for accessing cardiac sites
- Patent Title (中): 用于进入心脏部位的腹导管导管
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Application No.: US10319245Application Date: 2002-12-16
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Publication No.: US08509916B2Publication Date: 2013-08-13
- Inventor: Charles L. Byrd , Kenneth C. Gardeski , Michael R. Leners , Linda L. Lach , Ralph J. Thomas , Jesse T. Torbert , James F. Kelley
- Applicant: Charles L. Byrd , Kenneth C. Gardeski , Michael R. Leners , Linda L. Lach , Ralph J. Thomas , Jesse T. Torbert , James F. Kelley
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Main IPC: A61N1/05
- IPC: A61N1/05

Abstract:
Bilumen catheters and methods of using same for facilitating implantation of cardiac leads for applying electrical stimulation to and/or sensing electrical activity of the heart through one or more electrode positioned at an implantation site within a heart chamber or cardiac vessel adjacent a heart chamber, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for introducing such a cardiac lead having low torqueability and pushability through a tortuous pathway to enable attachment of the cardiac lead at the implantation site employing a bilumen guide catheter are disclosed. The bilumen catheter body includes a relatively large diameter delivery lumen to introduce a small diameter cardiac lead and a small diameter guide lumen to receive a stylet or guidewire to locate the guide catheter body distal end at the implantation site. The small diameter lumen within a small diameter guide tube extends distally from the delivery exit port of the delivery lumen.
Public/Granted literature
- US20040116878A1 Bilumen guide catheters for accessing cardiac sites Public/Granted day:2004-06-17
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