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6251115 |
Method for the medical treatment of the neurological system
A medical positioning device internal to a catheter or lead for the nonlinear insertion of a catheter or lead into an interior organ. The medical positioning device comprising an outer tubular...
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6248100 |
Drainage catheter delivery system
A single operator drainage catheter delivery system and method of use. The delivery system includes a guide member having a guidewire lumen extending through a distal portion thereof, with a...
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6231560 |
Method and apparatus for automatically controlling the level of medication
A method and apparatus which captures relevant information pertaining to a patient's physiological conditions, automatically adjusts the amount of medication to optimize the treatment of pain and...
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6228072 |
Shaft for medical catheters
Several improvements are provided in the design of a catheter shaft to reduce costs and improve performance. In one aspect, a small notch is fabricated into a catheter tube by a nonlaser process...
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6228048 |
Colonic irrigation apparatus and method
A colonic irrigation apparatus for cleaning bodily orifices such as the large intestine, which converts pressurized water from a building's water supply into a gravity flow and which provides...
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6224565 |
Protective sheath and method for ultrasonic probes
In general a protective sheath for an ultrasonic fragmenting device includes a handpiece to be held and manipulated by a surgeon. The handpiece has a housing, an ultrasonic motor mounted...
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6219575 |
Method and apparatus to enhance optical transparency of biological tissues
Method and apparatus for enhancing the optical transparency of biological tissue covered by a surface permeability barrier of tissue, involving the delivery of a clarifying agent to the target...
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6210370 |
Access device with expandable containment member
An access device having a single sheath is inserted into a body passage puncture, with an expandable member of the access device held to a minimum diameter. The expandable member is held to the...
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6206868 |
Protective device and method against embolization during treatment of carotid artery disease
Methods and apparatus are provided for removing emboli during an angioplasty, stenting or surgical procedure using a catheter having an occlusion element disposed on its distal end, a suction...
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6206004 |
Treatment method via the pericardial space
A method for treating the heart and associated vessels and tissues, by controlling the temperature of the pericardial space and/or introducing therapeutic agents, drugs or the like thereto,...
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6203520 |
Apparatus and method for the treatment of the gastrointestinal tract
A method and apparatus for the treatment of the gastrointestinal tract. In one form of the present invention an irrigation tube is positioned through the patient's mouth, esophagus and into the...
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6200303 |
Method and kit for transvenously accessing the pericardial space via the right atrium
A method and kit for accessing the pericardial space take advantage of the fact that the right auricle is a thin-walled, low-pressure structure which can be readily penetrated without damaging the...
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6200304 |
Transfection system, its preparation and use in somatic gene therapy
The present invention relates to a transfection system comprising one or more Infiltrator catheters, one or more non-viral nucleic acids, and, where appropriate, suitable ancillary substances...
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6179824 |
System and methods for electrosurgical restenosis of body lumens
The present invention comprises apparatus and methods for maintaining patency in body passages subject to occlusion by invasive tissue growth. The apparatus and methods of the present invention may...
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6174299 |
Method for treating hemophilia A and B and AIDS and devices used therein
The present invention provides a method for treating Hemophilia A or B which comprises implanting in fluid communication with the bloodstream of a mammal in need of such treatment a permeable...
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6165155 |
Multipathway electronically-controlled drug delivery system
A low-profile multipathway automatic drug delivery system utilizing a battery powered control pad coupled to a disposable drug storage and delivery system and strapped to a patient's limb or torso....
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6159158 |
Diagnostic catheter system for nasopharyngeal obstructions
An apparatus and method for identifying and marking regions of tissue obstruction in the upper airway of a patient. The invention provides a greatly improved method for use during a sleep apnea...
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6159195 |
Exchange catheter and method of use
Exchange catheters which allow for the removal of a standard guidewire and replacement with a guidewire or catheter bearing an occlusive device during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or...
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6159197 |
Method and apparatus for treating body tissues and bodily fluid vessels
Methods for treating bodily tissues and fluid vessels are disclosed. According to a method of repairing a perforation in a bodily fluid vessel, a viscous, moldable substance is inserted into the...
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6159196 |
Methods and apparatus for transvascular muscular revascularization and drug delivery
Apparatus and methods for effecting controlled injury to a selected body region to induce muscular revascularization and to provide delivery of drugs and therapeutic agents. A transvascular or...
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6159179 |
Cannula and sizing and insertion method
A relatively inexpensive cannula is sized by including indica on a cannulated dilator that is used to measure the depth of a body cavity, and in one embodiment with the use of a cuttable fixture...
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6159174 |
Method of using lectins for therapy of diseases transmittable by sexual contact
In order to prevent conception and/or the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) one or more lectins capable of binding sperm and/or the pathogenic microorganisms responsible for STD's are...
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6156016 |
Catheter systems and associated methods utilizing removable inner catheter or catheters
A catheter system for use in a body of a patient is disclosed. The catheter system includes a guide catheter having a distal guide orifice, a proximal guide orifice, and a guide lumen extending...
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6152139 |
Device and method for preparing veins
A device and method for treating a vein to improve its structural integrity. Heating the vein causes at least a portion of the cross links of the collagen in the vein to unlink/open and...
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6139535 |
Method and apparatus for placement and activation of a medical device within a body cavity
A delivery device and method for delivering a medical device, such as an infuser, into a body cavity are disclosed. The delivery device includes an ejector tube which slidably extends through a...
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6139571 |
Heated fluid surgical instrument
A heated fluid surgical instrument including a palm-sized handpiece having a cannula adapted to be inserted into a patient's body by way of a natural access (e.g., mouth) or a small incision. A...
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6135990 |
Electroporation device and method
A device for manipulating a molecule in vivo relative to a target tissue in three dimensions includes a support and at least one member affixed to and extending away from the support. The member...
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6135997 |
Method for treating hemorrhoids
A catheter delivers an electrode within a vein for a minimally invasive treatment of hemorrhoids using RF energy. The catheter is introduced into a patient and positioned within the section of the...
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6132419 |
Electroporetic gene and drug therapy
A method and apparatus are provided for introducing molecules such as genes and pharmaceutical compounds into living blood cells of a patient for therapeutic purposes. A device is placed into...
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6117105 |
Aortic catheter and methods for inducing cardioplegic arrest and for selective aortic perfusion
The present invention provides an aortic catheter having an upstream occlusion member positioned in the ascending aorta between the coronary arteries and the brachiocephalic artery and a downstream...
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6113629 |
Hydrogel for the therapeutic treatment of aneurysms
The hydrogel for the treatment of aneurysms acts as a carrier for both a radiopaque agent allowing the hydrogel to be visualized under fluoroscopy and a therapeutic agent such as one or more human...
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6113570 |
Method of removing thrombosis in fistulae
Apparatus and methods are provided for utilizing a combination of ultrasonic energy and an echo contrast agent containing microbubbles, for substantially dissolving blood clots or other fistula...
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6113584 |
Intraluminal delivery of tissue lysing medium
A method and system for lysing a patient's heart tissue causing or involved with arrhythmia which includes an intravascular catheter with a relatively inelastic occlusion balloon on the distal end...
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6110161 |
Method for introducing pharmaceutical drugs and nucleic acids into skeletal muscle
A method is disclosed for delivering molecules such as pharmaceutical drugs and nucleic acids into skeletal muscle in vivo. The pharmaceutical drug or nucleic acid is first injected into the muscle...
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6110144 |
Method and apparatus for regulating the fluid flow rate to and preventing over-pressurization of a balloon catheter
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for limiting the pressure of inflation fluid injected into a drug delivery catheter balloon, while permitting continuous and uninterrupted flow of...
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6102903 |
Device and method for selectively delivering fluid into an anatomical lumen
An apparatus and method for selective delivering fluid into a fluid vessel is provided. In the method, a delivery catheter (2) is advanced over a guide wire (30) to a target location within fluid...
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6102904 |
Device for injecting fluid into a wall of a blood vessel
A method and device for injecting fluid into a treatment area of a vessel wall is provided herein. A first version of the device includes an inflatable balloon mounted on a catheter and a plurality...
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6096019 |
Cerebral edema solute catheter and method of draining cerebral edema
Catheters for removing interstitial fluid from a cerebral edema that comprises an edema drainage section terminating in a proximal tip linked to a fluid transport section terminating in a distal...
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6096018 |
Medical treatment utilizing ionically crosslinked medical devices
The present invention provides a method for medical treatment comprising introducing into a human or animal a medical device selected from the group consisting of stents, catheters, cannulas, plugs...
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6096011 |
Aseptic connector and fluid delivery system using such an aseptic connector
An aseptic connector comprises a first member and a second member. The first member preferably includes a resilient septum, and the second member preferably includes a penetrating member....
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6093179 |
Apparatus and method for placement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube
A method for placing a feeding tube placement wire in a patient. The method includes the step of providing a placement wire dispenser. The dispenser includes a rotatable placement wire receptacle...
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6090094 |
Ball valves and uses thereof including endoscopic surgical instruments
An on-off valve for medical procedures and laboratory devices, that has particular use with endoscopic medical procedures. Also featured are endoscopic devices that comprise such valves. The valve...
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6086557 |
Bifurcated venous cannula
A cannula for draining blood from a patient's heart during cardiac surgery including a main body and a pair of branches extending distally therefrom. The branches are biased to extend away from one...
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6086558 |
Balloon catheter for photodynamic therapy
The present invention provides improved balloon catheter apparatuses for use in therapies requiring delivery of uniform light to a treatment area. The improved apparatus comprises a balloon having...
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6083214 |
Medicant dispersing method
A treatment of using pressure-driven blood infused with an antibiotic, analgesic or like pharmacological agent from a site of delivery to the patient to a site of pain or ache, in which...
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6080538 |
Plasma like solution and methods of use
Aqueous solutions comprising a polysaccharide oncotic agent, a physiologically compatible buffer, a simple hexose sugar, dissolved chloride salts of calcium, sodium and magnesium, and a dissolved...
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6080140 |
Integral cerebro-vascular access system
A system and method for percutaneous access to a blood vessel is disclosed. The system according to the present invention includes a flexible guide wire for guiding the system to a desired position...
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6077256 |
Delivery of a composition to the lung
In general, the invention features methods for delivering a composition to the lung in a non-surgical, percutaneous approach by utilizing the pulmonary vasculature (i.e., the pulmonary arteries and...
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6074377 |
Method of installing vascular access device
A vascular access device is provided which can be used for chronic venous or organ access. When implanted, the device facilitates repeated intermittent infusions of medical treatment while reducing...
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6071272 |
Method for treating erectile dysfunctionality
This invention relates to a method for treating erectile dysfunctionality by injecting pharmacological agents into the corpora cavernosa of the penis. The present invention employs an improved...
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