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6071271 |
Cardiopulmonary catheter system
A catheter system for use in minimally invasive cardiac surgical procedures. The catheter system diminishes certain trauma generally associated with invasive cardiac procedures while providing...
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6071277 |
Method and apparatus for reducing the size of a hollow anatomical structure
A catheter delivers an electrode within a hollow anatomical structure for a minimally invasive treatment which reduces the size of the structure. The catheter is introduced and positioned within a...
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6068621 |
Articulating cannula
A cannula possessing a distal region and a proximal region, a slider mounted on the cannula, and a manipulator wire connecting the distal region and the slider, is articulated by proximal and...
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6066122 |
Needle apparatus and method for marking lesions
An elongate side port of small circumferential extent is formed in a hollow bore needle of the type used for marking the location of a lesion or a tumor in a breast or soft tissue. A wire carrier...
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6066112 |
Corporeal access tube assembly and method
A corporeal access assembly including a tube segment having a body formed of silicone rubber and containing a coil spring embedded therein. The silicone rubber has a low durometer hardness of about...
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6059765 |
Fluid management system with vertex chamber
Fluid management apparatus for a surgical instrument having fluid irrigation and aspiration lines includes a console having an aspiration pump and housing having a longitudinal axis. A chamber is...
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6059753 |
Reusable cassette housings and methods
Reusable cassettes for a drug pump are disclosed to house a fluid reservoir and tubing extending from the reservoir across a tubing support surface of the pressure plate of the cassette. A hinged...
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6059747 |
Syringe pump infusion control set
A syringe pump infusion control set (10) includes a high cracking bottle port check valve (22) and a low cracking patient port check valve (50) by which to selectively and automatically couple a...
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6053900 |
Apparatus and method for delivering diagnostic and therapeutic agents intravascularly
An apparatus and method for delivering diagnostic and therapeutic agents intravascularly in which the apparatus has a shape defined by a preset shape of a resilient fiber core. The resilient fiber...
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6053899 |
Material delivery device and method of using the same
A device, and related method, for introducing fiber material into a body includes a tubular member with a lumen extending to an opening in a distal end portion of the tubular member and a mechanism...
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6053902 |
Implanted body catheter
A tubular catheter for implantation in a tubular structure of a human or animal body, comprising a lumen, characterized in that the catheter comprises a minimum of one radial groove.
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6053887 |
Medical treatment apparatus and method
A medical treatment apparatus is provided with a programmable medical device disposed at a first room location and a remote monitor and/or controller disposed at a second room location. The...
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6050975 |
Control of tissue growth in textured blood-contacting surfaces
A blood pump provides a mechanism to prevent excessive growth of tissue at the transition zone between a smooth blood contacting surface and a textured blood contacting surface. The blood pump...
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6042564 |
System and method for administering two liquids
A flow set which enables the sequential administration of two liquids from a pair of containers to a patient. The flow set has a pair of valve assemblies each in communication with a container....
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6039714 |
Collapsible retention bolster for gastrostomy and other ostomy tubes
The present invention is an improved ostomy fluid tube and method for its use comprising a collapsible retention bolster for securing the tube to the inner stomach wall and fascia. The retention...
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6039721 |
Method and catheter system for delivering medication with an everting balloon catheter
A balloon catheter having concentric, elongate lumen and guide tubes defining a lumen therebetween. An annular balloon has its proximal end secured to the lumen tube and its distal end secured to...
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6036681 |
Apparatus and method for morselating and removing tissue from a patient
A method for morselating and removing the morselated tissue through a small incision comprising in general inserting a tissue container into the body cavity of a patient through an incision,...
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6033398 |
Method and apparatus for treating venous insufficiency using directionally applied energy
A catheter introduces electrodes in a vein for a minimally invasive treatment of venous insufficiency by the application of energy to cause selective heating of the vein. The catheter is positioned...
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6027486 |
Interactive angioplasty
A dilatation catheter includes an inflation balloon having a variable diameter inflation profile. The balloon has a first inflation profile, in which it exhibits a substantially cylindrical central...
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6024717 |
Apparatus and method for sonically enhanced drug delivery
Apparatus for delivering medicament media into tissue comprises a medicament supply assembly and an oscillatory drive assembly. The medicament supply assembly includes a medicament transfer...
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6024734 |
Treatment methods using homeopathic preparations of growth factors
The present invention comprises homeopathic dilutions of growth factors and methods for their use. Disorders which may be effectively treated with the compositions of the present invention include...
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6024735 |
Process and composition for cleaning soft tissue grafts optionally attached to bone and soft tissue and bone grafts produced thereby
The invention relates to compositions effective for the cleansing of mammalian soft tissue optionally attached to bones, and particularly the removal of blood deposits and bone marrow therefrom....
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6022340 |
Ballon/delivery catheter assembly with adjustable balloOn positioning
This is a catheter assembly having an expandable balloon adjustably positionable over a polymeric delivery catheter shaft.
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6013619 |
Pulmonary surfactants and therapeutic uses, including pulmonary lavage
The present invention discloses useful surfactant molecules including polypeptides, proteins, and a variety of other organic molecules, as well as methods of making and using same. Surfactant...
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6013049 |
Controlled outflow sleeve
Method and apparatus for removing a natural lens from an eye provides for inserting an infusion cannula into an anterior chamber of an eye and establishing fluid communication into a lens capsule...
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6013067 |
Methods for increasing hematopoietic cells
Methods for increasing hematopoietic cells, including platelets and erythrocytes, in patients receiving bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplants are disclosed. The methods comprise...
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6007334 |
Interdental balloon
The dental device comprises an elongated inflatable balloon for placement around a matrix band in part surrounding relationship with a decayed tooth. Upon inflation, the balloon evenly applies the...
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6004290 |
Urethral sizing catheter
An anchoring system for a urethral catheter (14, 36), and a method of its use, involve a resilient anchor-interval portion (40) of a catheter drainage shaft (42, 42'), positioned between a bladder...
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5997505 |
Method of cannulating an ascending aorta using a blood vessel occlusion device
An occluder apparatus for obstructing the flow of blood in a blood vessel has an elongated hollow tubular body having a leading end sized for reception in the blood vessel and includes portion of...
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5999628 |
Method and apparatus for improved digital message transaction model
The invention is a machine-readable medium for implementing an improved electronic transaction model. The machine-readable medium stores at least one non-certficate data block, at least one prior...
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5993378 |
Electro-optical instruments and methods for treating disease
Improvements in electro-optical instruments operable in body ducts, such as catheters, endoscopes, laparascopes and free travelling capsules adapted to pass through the body ducts. Methods for...
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5990194 |
Biodegradable in-situ forming implants and methods of producing the same
A biodegradable polymer is provided for use in providing syringeable, in-situ forming, solid biodegradable implants for animals. The polymer is placed into the animal in liquid form and cures to...
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5989213 |
Long-term dialysis catheter system and associated method
A long-term dialysis catheter system for use in a body of a patient includes a guide catheter having a guide lumen defined therein, wherein the guide lumen defines a distal guide orifice. The...
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5976105 |
Intra annular ultrasound disc apparatus and method
An improved method and apparatus for treating herniated discs involving the preliminary intra annular ultrasonic softening of the herniated disc portions to be removed with a discectomy instrument...
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5976104 |
Recirculation method for cleaning essentially intact bone grafts using pressure mediated flow of solutions and bone grafts produced thereby
The present invention is directed to a process for cleaning large bone grafts using a pressure mediated flow of solutions, and to the bone grafts produced thereby where the bone grafts are suitable...
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5975085 |
Method of treating schizophrenia by brain stimulation and drug infusion
Techniques using one or more drugs and/or electrical stimulation for treating schizophrenia by means of an implantable signal generator and electrode and an implantable pump and catheter. A...
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5976178 |
Medical grafting methods
Methods and apparatus for delivering and installing a new Length of tubing between two sections of a patient's existing body organ tubing and at least partly outside of that existing structure. For...
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5961486 |
Clot resistant multiple lumen catheter
Blood is circulated through a multiple lumen catheter which connects between a vein of a patient and the blood treatment device. The catheter and the lumens thereof each define distal ends which...
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5954742 |
Dilatation catheter
A balloon-free dilatation catheter has an elongated flexible sheath which is insertable into an animal body so that its distal end is located at or within a selected portion of an internal passage,...
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5951538 |
Gas generating device for delivering beneficial agents to a body cavity
A controlled delivery device for holding and administering a biologically active agent includes a housing having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a port associated with the housing....
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5944710 |
Electroporation-mediated intravascular delivery
A method for sustained intravascular delivery via electroporation is provided. The method is useful for delivery of therapeutic compositions such as antithrombotic and anticoagulant agents. The...
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5941845 |
Catheter having multiple-needle electrode and methods thereof
An improved ablation catheter with at least one multiple-needle electrode can be used in ablating the arrhythmogenic region instead of an arrhythmogenic point of a patient. This catheter is...
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5941872 |
Method of using an increasing radius curve catheter
A guide catheter for insertion into the cardiovascular system having a straight portion and an improved distal end portion for more precise and easier positioning in a left coronary artery. The...
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5941868 |
Localized intravascular delivery of growth factors for promotion of angiogenesis
Angiogenesis in cardiac and other tissues is promoted by the transmural delivery of angiogenic factors such as VEGF, FGF, EGF, and PDGF, through blood vessels and other body lumens into the...
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5935119 |
Perfusion structure
The present disclosure is directed to a perfusion stent and method for implanting the same in a TMR channel for perfusing blood to ischemic areas of the head. The stent includes a head and a stem...
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5935120 |
Catheter and method for evaluating competency of mitral valve
A catheter for evaluating the competency of a mitral valve has a main lumen and at least one additional lumen for venting the area immediately adjacent the catheter. The vent lumen has multiple...
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5931811 |
Steerable catheter with fixed curve
A steerable catheter is disclosed which includes a complexly curved proximal section shaped to seat the catheter relative to an anatomical feature within a patient. The catheter also includes a...
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5919157 |
Shaped flexible infusion sleeve
A shaped flexible infusion sleeve provides for delivery of an infusion fluid to the tip of a vibrating needle used in a phacoemulsification procedure for removing cataracts. The shaped flexible...
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5919158 |
Method and apparatus for preventing and clearing condensation on the lens during a fluid-gas exchange portion of a pars plana vitrectomy
An infusion cannula for use in clearing and preventing condensation on the posterior surface of an artificial lens during the fluid-gas exchange portion of a pars plana vitrectomy is described. The...
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5916144 |
System for introducing a fluid into the uterus of an animal
This invention relates to a system for penetrating the uterus of an animal during a non-surgical procudure, the uterus having a cervix leading to a uterus body. The system comprises a probe having...
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