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7621923 Snare coil retrieval device for capturing and retrieving a specimen  
A retrieval device for retrieving and capturing a foreign body specimen, such as a tissue specimen or a foreign material specimen, according to one exemplary embodiment includes an outer cannula...
7591825 Surgical extractor  
A surgical extractor for removing objects from a body including, for example, calculi, such as kidney stones and gall stones. The extractor includes a handle at a proximal end with a slider for...
7572272 Embolic filtering devices for bifurcated vessels  
An embolic filtering device for use in a bifurcated vessel includes delivery device having a first guide wire and a second guide wire. The second guide wire diverges from the distal-end region of...
7553314 Surgical device for retrieval of foreign objects from a body  
A surgical device for removing a foreign object from a body is described. The device includes a retrieval basket for entrapping and retaining the object located in the body, a basket control...
7527634 Device and method of use for functional isolation of animal or human tissues  
A method and apparatus for functionally occluding the lumen of the left atrial appendage (LAA) is provided. Access to the LAA is through an epicardial approach. The devices function to capture the...
7491211 Medical retrieval devices  
A medical retrieval device includes a retrieval assembly comprising a plurality of filaments knotted together at a distal end of the retrieval assembly. The knotted distal end provides the device...
7476232 Access catheter having dilation capability and related methods  
Various embodiments of a medical device having a dilation capability and related methods are disclosed. For example, the medical device may include a distal assembly having a radially expandable...
7470274 Single-blow shockwave generation device  
The invention relates to a single-blow mechanical shockwave generation device used in urological surgery for disintegration of urinary duct stones, comprising a striking device which strikes a...
7462183 Methods for deploying conformed structures in body lumens  
Occluding structures may be created within a body lumen by advancing a length of material distally through the body lumen. By drawing a distal location on the advanced length of material in a...
7410490 Surgical device  
A surgical device having a sheath and legs slidably received within the sheath. The legs are adapted to move outwardly away from each other when deployed from the sheath to establish a deployed...
7374564 Apparatus and method for causing deflection of a surgical instrument  
An apparatus and method of precisely controlling deflection or twisting of a surgical instrument during surgery is applied to a surgical instrument incorporating a shape memory alloy. An example of...
7338501 Treatment and removal of objects in anatomical lumens  
A medical device can be used to entrain biological or foreign material during a medical procedure for the fragmentation of the material. The device also can be used to remove the material safely...
7326220 Tool for removing intraocular foreign bodies  
A surgical tool captures and removes very large intraocular foreign bodies from the eye. An elongate bore is formed in an elongate base that is held in the palm of a hand. A user retracts a foreign...
7316692 Laser-cut clot puller  
A device for removing blood clots and methods of making and using the same. The clot pulling device may include a first spine, a second spine disposed parallel to the first spine, and a basket...
7282055 Medical retrieval instrument  
A medical retrieval instrument of the present invention includes a plurality of filaments for holding an object and a hollow section through which a first end of each of said plurality of filaments...
7241299 Surgical extractor for extracting foreign bodies through natural or surgical passages  
A surgical extractor for extracting foreign bodies through natural or surgical passages may include a flexible tube that penetrates inside the passages, a longitudinally rigid maneuvering wire that...
7214229 Radially expanding stents  
The present disclosure is directed to embodiments of devices for capturing obstructions within passageways. The devices disclosed herein may include a flexible tubular body forming multiple...
7211089 Medical retrieval device  
A medical retrieval device has a multi-prong retrieval assembly. The multi-prong retrieval assembly has a first position, in which the retrieval assembly extends from the distal end of the sheath...
7210210 Method of making a medical grasper  
A method of forming an annularly expanding and retracting gripping and releasing mechanism providing a series of flexible tubes, comprising providing (1) a series of flexible tubes, (2) a...
7186258 Lenticular net instruments  
A lenticular net instrument comprises an elongate handle coupled with a lenticular net movable to contracted and expanded configurations via an actuator of the handle. The net in the contracted...
7169154 Releasable basket and method of making thereof  
A medical retrieval device includes a basket formed of two or more loops. The basket may be used to retrieve material (e.g., a urinary stone) from a body. The basket opens and closes for...
7137966 Immobilizing objects in the body  
Stabilizing an object in the body of a patient involves the injection of a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) material or other flowable material into the body of the patient so that the...
7115138 Sheath tip  
An embolic protection filter delivery and/or retrieval assembly. In one embodiment the assembly includes a shaft having a filter coupled thereto, a sheath, and a tapering member.
7101380 Surgical device for retrieval of foreign objects from a body  
A surgical device for removing a foreign object from a body is described. The device includes a retrieval basket for entrapping and retaining the object located in the body, a basket control...
7101379 Retrieval basket for a surgical device and system and method for manufacturing same  
A medical retrieval basket device, comprising a plurality of basket wires forming a basket, the basket including a wire collector at its distal end, the wire collector having a substantially rigid...
7087069 Vascular anchoring device  
In a vascular anchoring device intended to be introduced into a blood vessel by a catheter and including braces ( 2 ) that are expandable in the radial direction, the anchoring device is formed by...
7087062 Endoscopic stone extraction device with improved basket  
An endoscopic stone extraction device includes a handle that supports a sheath, and a filament such as a wire slidably disposed in the sheath. One end of the wire is mounted to the handle for...
7087061 Method for intracorporeal lithotripsy fragmentation and apparatus for its implementation  
Electro-impulse intracorporeal lithotripsy comprises bringing electrodes of a probe in immediate electrical contact with the calculus and supplying to the electrodes of very short high voltage...
7077849 Atraumatic medical retrieval device  
Baskets with atraumatic distal tips allow the capture of material from difficult-to-reach areas of the body, while reducing the risk of tissue damage.
7063707 Medical retrieval device  
Alternative designs, materials and manufacturing methods for medical retrieval devices. Some embodiments pertain to a medical retrieval device including a cage having internal migration barriers...
7052502 Medical instrument and method for creating a cavity for endoscopic intervention  
The invention relates to a medical instrument for creating a cavity for an endoscopic intervention in a human or animal body, comprising a hollow cylindrical encasing trocar tube which can be...
7041108 Grasper mechanism with biased fixed flexure elements  
An expansible and retractable mechanism of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,924,175 and/or a medical grasper of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,906,622 in which (1) the fixed flexure...
7018385 Medical retrieval basket with legs shaped to enhance capture and reduce trauma  
A medical retrieval device, and related method, uses a basket formed by one or more legs to retrieve material such as calculi. At least one of the legs has at least an inner and an outer surface....
7014648 Adjustable blood filtration device  
A medical device comprising a tubular member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. An adjustable filter is provided having a frame and a mesh disposed about the...
7008434 Clot retrieval device  
The shape memory clot retrieval device can be placed in the vasculature of a patient for retrieving and removing distal clots. The clot retrieval device has an elongated catheter member that can be...
7004954 Device for removal of thrombus through physiological adhesion  
A device that is useful for removing obstructions from vessels. Various embodiments and methods of use are contemplated for the effective removal of obstructions. The disclosed devices utilize a...
6958069 Instruments and methods for use in laparoscopic surgery  
A surgical dilator extractor is introduced into the abdominal cavity through a trocar cannula and expanded, forming a tissue receiving space, at the distal end. The tissue that is to be extracted...
6942673 Releasable basket  
A medical retrieval device includes a basket formed of two or more loops. The basket may be used to retrieve material (e.g., a urinary stone) from a body. The basket opens and closes for...
6939353 Variable composite sheath with interrupted sections  
A medical device includes a handle, a sheath, and an object-engaging unit. The distal end portion of the sheath is strong enough to resist being deformed by the object-engaging unit, yet another...
6875193 Rapid exchange fluid jet thrombectomy device and method  
A rapid exchange fluid jet thrombectomy device for removal of thrombus or unwanted tissue debris from a vein, artery or the like. The device includes a semi-rigid intermediate tube between a...
6866651 Methods and devices for the in situ dissolution of renal calculi  
Methods and devices for at least reducing the mass of, if not dissolving, renal calculi in situ are provided. In the subject methods, a renal calculus is contacted, e.g. flushed, with an acidic...
6805699 Laparoscopic specimen retrieval shoehorn  
An laparoscopic specimen retrieval shoehorn (“LSRS”) is described. The LSRS has a primary shaft with a rearward portion, an intermediate portion, and a forward portion. The forward portion is...
6800080 Medical retrieval device  
Immobilization and/or retrieval of material from a body can be accomplished, in accordance with the invention, with a device that includes a sheath and a basket. The basket is movable relative to...
6780193 Surgical extractor  
A surgical extractor for removing objects from a body including, for example, calculi, such as kidney stones and gall stones. The extractor includes a handle at an proximal end of the extractor...
6764499 Medical device handle  
A replaceable handle for side loading the proximal end of a medical device therein, which is typically inserted with the operating lumen of an endoscope. The replaceable handle can side-load the...
6755779 Apparatus and method for delivery of cardiac constraint jacket  
A cardiac constraint jacket is formed of flexible material defining a volume between an open upper end and a lower end. The jacket is dimensioned for an apex of a patient's heart to be inserted...
6730104 Methods and devices for removing an obstruction from a blood vessel  
The devices and methods of the invention are directed to various aspects of removing obstructions in a blood vessel. A power source may be provided to facilitate advancement of the device and...
6709465 Radially expanding ureteral device  
A ureteral device is provided for facilitating stone passage through a ureter or duct. An exemplary ureteral device includes a flexible, elongate body that defines a plurality of cages along the...
6702834 Embolic protection devices  
An embolic protection device for use in a blood vessel when an interventional procedure is being performed in a stenosed or occluded region to capture any embolic material which may be created and...
6692509 Method of using a clot capture coil  
A clot and foreign body removal device is described which comprises a catheter with at least one lumen. Located within the catheter is a clot capture coil that is connected to an insertion mandrel....
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