Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pressure sensing guidewire and methods for calculating fractional flow reserve
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Application No.: US14511931Application Date: 2014-10-10
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Publication No.: US09775523B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Daniel J. Gregorich
- Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
- Applicant Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
- Current Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Agency: Seager, Tufte & Wickhem, LLP
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B5/02 ; A61B5/0215 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example method may include a method for calculating fractional flow reserve including providing a pressure sensing guidewire, advancing the pressure sensing guidewire through a blood vessel to a first position distal of an intravascular occlusion, determining a distal pressure within the body lumen with the pressure sensing guidewire, proximally shifting the pressure sensing guidewire to a second position proximal of the occlusion, determining a proximal pressure within the body lumen with the pressure sensing guidewire, measuring an aortic pressure, and calculating a pressure drift. The pressure drift may be the difference between the aortic pressure and the proximal pressure. The method may also include calculating a drift-compensated fractional flow reserve. The drift-compensated fraction flow reserve may correspond to (the distal pressure+the pressure drift) divided by the aortic pressure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150105673A1 PRESSURE SENSING GUIDEWIRE AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE Public/Granted day:2015-04-16
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