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6159176 |
Sheath and support for ultrasonic elongate tip
An improved ultrasonic surgical instrument is disclosed having a design that extends horn or tip life and minimizes instrument breakage and disintegration during use. The instrument comprises an...
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6159175 |
Phacoemulsification handpiece, sleeve, and tip
A phacoemulsification instrument that significantly reduces infusion fluid leakage by providing a silicone sleeve with a built in reinforcing member. Also, the sleeve has only a single infusion...
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6156047 |
Catheter device having a selectively flexible housing
Disclosed herein is a catheter device which is operably positionable for use in a biological conduit. The catheter device includes a catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end; a flexible...
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6156049 |
Method and apparatus for transurethral resection of the prostate
A method and apparatus for transurethral resection of the prostate, which includes inserting a transurethral incisional device through the patient's urethra, incising off at least one piece of...
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6152941 |
Endoscopic cannulated handpiece motor with integrated suction control
A surgical handpiece includes a housing having an interior cavity and an exterior surface adapted to be gripped by the hand of a user. A rotary drive mechanism is provided inside of the housing and...
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6152894 |
Surgical cutting instrument
A surgical cutting instrument for introduction into a cutting trocar sleeve possesses an essentially tubular housing shank, which at its distal end able to be introduced into the trocar is provided...
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6152143 |
Method for treatment of air way obstructions
A method for reducing a volume of a tongue includes providing an ablation apparatus with an energy delivery device configured to be coupled to an energy source. The energy delivery device is...
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6149620 |
System and methods for electrosurgical tissue treatment in the presence of electrically conductive fluid
Systems and methods are provided for applying a high frequency voltage in the presence of an electrically conductive fluid to create a relatively low-temperature plasma for ablation of tissue...
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6146353 |
Smoke extraction device
A smoke extraction device for use with an electrosurgical instrument is provided. The smoke extraction device includes an elongated body portion defining a first lumen having first and second ends....
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6142996 |
Methods useable for forming small openings in the lens capsules of mammalian eyes
A device and system for creating small (e.g., less than 3 mm and preferably about 1 mm in cross dimension) openings in the anterior lens capsule of a mammalian eye to facilitate insertion of lens...
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6139518 |
Powered assisted liposuction and lipoinjection equipment
A power assisted liposuction/lipoinjection handpiece includes a handle (12) which provides power to reciprocate a cannula (10) back and forth during surgery The cannula (10) can be connected to the...
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RE36939 |
Composition for therapy of diseases with ultrasonic and pharmaceutical liquid composition containing the same
A booster comprising a plenty of microbubbles of a gas in a liquid, e.g. about 4×10 7 cells/ml of microbubbles of a gas having a diameter of 0.1 to 100 μm in a 3 to 5% human serum albumin...
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6135977 |
Rheolytic catheter
A technique for treatment of plaque deposits on the arterial wall of a patient. The technique employs a high pressure jet of sterile saline solution directed at the plaque deposit. The high...
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6132436 |
Self-regulating phaco sleeve to reduce tissue burn
The sleeve apparatus for a phacoemulsification/irrigation and aspiration handpiece having an ultrasonic drive assembly attached to a hollow needle includes a compressible sleeve for establishing an...
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6129734 |
Rotational atherectomy device with radially expandable prime mover coupling
A rotatable atherectomy device having an exchangeable drive shaft cartridge and a rotatable prime mover coupling. The cartridge has a rotatable drive shaft socket carried by a carriage. The...
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6126629 |
Multiple port phaco needle
The present invention provides a phacoemulsification needle having an improved distal tip. The distal tip is provided with a generally rounded closed distal end having a plurality of longitudinally...
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6126635 |
Adjustable treatment chamber catheter
Disclosed herein is a catheter device for treatment of disease in biological conduits. The device has inner and outer coaxial catheter members, each having an inflatable balloon attached near its...
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6123084 |
Method for improving blood flow in the heart
A method for improving blood flow in the heart provides a catheter system with an outer catheter defining at least one lumen and an inner catheter defining at least one lumen with proximal and...
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6117109 |
Systems and methods for electrosurgical incisions on external skin surfaces
Systems and methods are provided for removing fatty tissue underlying a patient's epidermis (e.g., blepharoplasty, brow lifts, eyelid shortening procedures, and the like). These methods include...
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6117152 |
Multi-function ultrasonic surgical instrument
A multi-function ultrasonic surgical instrument operable to perform a number of surgical procedures including: 1) scoring of tissue to a controlled depth, 2) coaptive transection of vessels...
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6117151 |
Eye incision temperature protecting sleeve
A sleeve for a medical handpiece. The sleeve has a flexible outer sleeve and a rigid inner sleeve that are both coupled to a case of the handpiece. Coupling the rigid inner sleeve to the case...
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6110127 |
Medical instrument for use in combination with an endoscope
A medical instrument comprising an insertion section, an operation section connected to a proximal end of the insertion section, and sampling means. The insertion section has a sheath comprising an...
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6102886 |
Steerable medical probe with stylets
A medical probe for the treatment by radio frequency ablation of tissue in a human comprising an elongate probe member having proximal and distal extremities. The elongate probe member has a...
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6093195 |
Endoscopic treatment tool
An endoscopic treatment tool including a flexible sheath (1) that is to be passed into or out of a treatment tool insertion channel in an endoscope and which has openings (4A, 4B) formed at and...
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6090103 |
Interstitial laser resectoscope
The present invention provides a resectoscope and a method for lasing, coagulating, resecting, removing and retrieving prostate tissue. The resectoscope of the invention includes an interstitial...
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6090123 |
Powered surgical handpiece with state marker for indicating the run/load state of the handpiece coupling assembly
A surgical handpiece (940) for actuating a cutting attachment (944). The handpiece includes a housing (942) which contains a motor (52) for driving the cutting attachment. A coupling assembly (948)...
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6086585 |
System and methods for electrosurgical treatment of sleep obstructive disorders
The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within the head and neck of a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the...
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6086598 |
Ophthalmic microsurgical system having color sensor for cassette identification
A system for controlling a plurality of ophthalmic microsurgical instruments is disclosed. Particularly, to such a system using a color sensor for differentiating between various disposable...
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6083191 |
Ultrasonic surgical apparatus
An electrical apparatus for driving an ultrasonic piezoelectric crystal transducer in a surgical handpiece for the fragmentation and aspiration of tissue, which apparatus includes an electronic...
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6083192 |
Pulsed ultrasound method for fragmenting/emulsifying and removing cataractous lenses
A method and apparatus for removing cataracts in which a flexible line preferably is inserted through an incision into the anterior chamber until its end is adjacent the cataract. Ultrasonic...
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6080127 |
Skin vibration method for topical targeted delivery of beneficial agents into hair follicles
The present invention provides a methods and apparatuses for use in providing rapid, selective and effective targeted delivery of beneficial substances into hair follicles. The invention relies on...
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6077257 |
Ablation of rectal and other internal body structures
The invention provides an apparatus and system for ablation of body structures or tissue in the region of the rectum. A catheter is inserted into the rectum, and an electrode is disposed thereon...
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6074396 |
Hollow needle for an ophthalmic surgical instrument
A hollow needle for use as an ultrasonic probe for crushing lenses during ophthalmic surgery. The needle has a suction channel extending toward the distal end into a radially expanding segment. The...
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6067988 |
Method for creation of drug delivery and/or stimulation pockets in myocardium
An apparatus and method for creating drug-filled pockets within muscle tissue, such as myocardium of the heart for increasing angiogenesis. More particularly, the apparatus has an excising assembly...
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6068647 |
Ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus having improved clamp arm tissue pad
An ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus is configured to effect cutting, coagulation, and clamping of tissue by cooperation of a clamping mechanism of the apparatus with an associated...
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6066123 |
Enhancement of bioavailability by use of focused energy delivery to a target tissue
Targeted tissue in vivo is altered using focused energy to specifically control endothelial permeability and interstitial integrity. Image guidance may be used in combination with physical energy...
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6066150 |
Surgical dissection instrument using a high-pressure liquid jet
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6063069 |
Method and apparatus for power lysis of a thrombus
Thrombectomy methods and apparatus for removing a thrombus from a blood vessel involving high velocity injection of a thrombolytic agent, e.g., a plasminogen activator, through multiple, closely...
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6059792 |
Sutureless pars plana vitrectomy tool
An intraocular surgical tool for removing material from an eye of a patient. The tool is provided with a cutting assembly and an aspiration apparatus to remove a portion of vitreous from the eye...
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6053886 |
Switch apparatus for operating an evacuator
The current invention is directed to a switch apparatus (6) for operating a surgical evacuator (14). The switch apparatus broadly comprises a surgical device (39) having a power unit (12), a...
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6050988 |
Device for enhancing transdermal agent flux
A device (2) comprising a sheet member (6) having a plurality of microprotrusions (4) extending from a bottom edge (5) for penetrating the skin of a patient. The sheet member (6) when in use being...
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6051010 |
Methods and devices for joining transmission components
A coupling structure releasably attaches a plurality of transmission members to each other. Non-vibratory structures hold a second end of the first transmission member in contact with a first end...
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6045549 |
Tissue ablation apparatus and device for use therein and method
A tissue ablation apparatus for minimally invasive treatment for disorders of the upper airway by the treatment of soft tissues in the upper airway comprising a hand-held device adapted to be held...
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6045527 |
Detection of ophthalmic surgical handpiece using shorting bar
A system for controlling a plurality of ophthalmic microsurgical instruments connected thereto. The microsurgical instruments are for use by a user such as a surgeon in performing ophthalmic...
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6042586 |
Anti-cornea-collapsing device for ophthalmic surgery using ultra-high vacuum aspiration
Device for preventing cornea from collapsing including a domed frame with an irrigation duct perforated therein up to the dome of the frame, and elastic latex membrane attached to, and tightly...
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6042552 |
Device for collecting endometrial fragments
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6039048 |
External ultrasound treatment of connective tissue
Using an external ultrasonic generator, ultrasonic waves are transmitted through the skin to the cells and tumescent solution. The ultrasonic waves disrupt the connective tissue between the cells.
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6039745 |
Equipment for microdermoabrasion through a flow of air/reducing substances mix and relative handpiece
A device for microdermoabrasion using a flow of a mixture of air and reducing substances, the device including a casing with a vacuum pump and a compressor at an interior of the casing. The device...
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6041253 |
Effect of electric field and ultrasound for transdermal drug delivery
Transdermal transport of molecules during sonophoresis (delivery or extraction) can be further enhanced by application of an electric field, for example, electroporation or iontophoresis. In a...
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6039715 |
Angulated phacoemulsification needle whose outer surface converges and inner channel narrows
A phacoemulsification apparatus includes a needle that is hollow and terminates in an evacuation port and has a straight portion and a bent or angulated portion spaced from the evacuation port. The...
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