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7601127 Therapeutic stimulation of genital tissue or reproductive organ of an infertility or impotence diagnosed patient  
The method of stimulation for a genital tissue or reproductive organ of an infertility or impotence diagnosed patient is disclosed. The stimulation has the steps of activating an acoustic shock...
7578796 Method of shockwave treating fish and shellfish  
The method of stimulating an aquatic life form is disclosed. The method has the steps of activating a pressure pulse or an acoustic shock wave generator or source to emit pressure pulse or acoustic...
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...
7377925 Fragmentation and extraction basket  
A surgical instrument for fragmenting and extracting stones includes an outer sheath having a proximal end and a distal end and an inner core longitudinally extending through the core and...
7374551 Minimally invasive fat cavitation method  
A method of fat cavitation including infiltrating adipose tissue with a liquid, creating a puncture in a patient's skin, providing a wire, the wire being generally uniform in diameter and having a...
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...
7229455 Ultrasonic calculus treatment apparatus  
An ultrasonic calculus treatment apparatus includes a longitudinal-vibration piezoelectric oscillator for vibrating in the axial direction of an ultrasonic transmitting member and a...
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...
7108693 Electromagnetic energy distributions for electromagnetically induced mechanical cutting  
Output optical energy pulses including relatively high energy magnitudes at the beginning of each pulse are disclosed. As a result of the relatively high energy magnitudes which lead each pulse,...
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...
6945977 Systems and methods for clot disruption and retrieval  
Thrombectomy and other treatments are achieved using a catheter having a positioning cage and a macerator within the positioning cage. The catheter is introduced to a target body lumen, typically a...
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...
6814740 Retrieval device made of precursor alloy cable  
A medical retrieval device for retrieving foreign objects from a patient and the method of constructing the device are disclosed. The device incorporates a wire cable composed of a precursor alloy...
6773446 Delivery apparatus for a self-expanding stent  
A delivery apparatus for a self-expanding stent is disclosed. The apparatus has an outer sheath forming an elongated tubular member having distal and proximal ends and an inside and outside...
6757582 Methods and systems to control a shaping tool  
A method and system for providing control that include providing a workpiece that includes a target shape, providing a cutting tool, providing a 3-D image associated with the workpiece, identifying...
6755853 Methods and kits for the inhibition of hyperplasia in vascular fistulas and grafts  
A method for inhibiting hyperplasia at an anastomotic junction of a vascular fistula or vascular graft comprises exposing the anastomotic junction to vibrational energy at a mechanical index and...
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...
6752801 Metal probe for intracorporeal calculi crushing  
A metal probe for intracorporeal calculi crushing has a point at its distal end with one or several lateral notches next to the probe end. These notches secure a calculus laterally against an...
6736784 Medical instrument for treating biological tissue and method for transmitting pressure waves  
A medical instrument for treating biological tissue comprises a housing ( 2 ), a pressure wave generation means ( 4 ) and a transmission means ( 8 ) for coupling the unfocused pressure waves into...
6695834 Apparatus and method for stone removal from a body  
A device for treating material in a body of a patient includes an expandable basket having a projection for securing material within the basket. The projection has a distal end joined to a distal...
6689086 Method of using a catheter for delivery of ultrasonic energy and medicament  
An ultrasound delivery catheter equipped and configured for concurrent delivery of drugs or therapeutic agents. The catheter comprises an elongate pliable catheter body having an ultrasound...
6673080 Retrieval basket with releasable tip  
A medical retrieval device is used to retrieve and/or fragment stones (and/or other objects) from the body of a patient. The device has a retrieval basket with a releasable tip. The tip release is...
6663594 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...
6660013 Apparatus for removing plaque from blood vessels using ultrasonic energy  
A method and apparatus for removing plaque, fatty deposits, and other occlusions from blood vessels using ultrasonic energy. The method and apparatus has particular application in removing plaque...
6620172 Entraining biological calculi  
A medical device for entraining biological stones during medical procedures for the fragmentation of urinary, biliary, pancreatic, and other biological calculi and safely removing them from the...
6613056 Ultrasonic probe with low-friction bushings  
An ultrasonic probe assembly is provided. The probe assembly includes a cannula and an ultrasonic probe disposed within the cannula. The probe assembly further includes a low-friction bushing...
6589253 Ultrasonic angioplasty transmission wire  
The ultrasonic angioplasty transmission wire for use in an ultrasonic angioplasty device comprises an inner layer of a first ultrasound transmitting material, and at least one outer coaxial shell...
6582440 Non-clogging catheter for lithotrity  
An improved rigid catheter is provided for lithotripsy. The catheter includes a rigid tube adapted to engage a lithotripsy transducer and power supply, with a restriction in an internal diameter of...
6558397 Device for removal of calculi  
A device for removing calculi by using an intracorporeal lithotripter comprises a single metallic probe or sonotrode which for the fragmentation of calculi is connected with an electrically...
6558366 Thrombectomy method  
A method of and apparatus for removing a thrombus deposit from the cardiovascular system of a patient without the need to surgically access the location of the thrombus deposit via a cut-down or...
6547779 Flexible flow apparatus and method for the disruption of occlusions  
Methods and apparatus for creating fluid flow from one location to another are disclosed. The fluid flow is created via the absorption of repetitive pulses of radiation in a fluid to generate...
6533792 Device for removal of calculi  
A device for removing calculi by using an intracorporeal lithotripter comprises a single metallic probe or sonotrode which for the fragmentation of calculi is connected with an electrically...
6494887 Surgical instrument  
The invention provides a surgical instrument for inserting an elongate element into a human patient. In the preferred form of the invention the instrument has a curved hollow shaft defining an arc...
6491685 Laser and acoustic lens for lithotripsy  
An acoustic focusing device whose acoustic waves are generated by laser radiation through an optical fiber. The acoustic energy is capable of efficient destruction of renal and biliary calculi and...
6440123 Metal probe for use in intracorporeal lithotripsy  
A metal probe for intracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy has a point at its distal end with one or several lateral notches next to the probe end, These notches secure a calculus laterally against an...
6398792 Angioplasty catheter with transducer using balloon for focusing of ultrasonic energy and method for use  
A catheter for insertion into an artery having deposits of plaque and/or thrombus includes, at its distal end an ultrasonic transducer and a dilatation balloon surrounding the transducer such that...
6382215 Method of suppression and prevention of the gag reflex  
A method for suppression and prevention of the gag reflex, particularly during dental procedures, utilizing a non-invasive nerve stimulation device applied to the wrist.
6325807 Variable strength sheath  
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...
6312434 Device for producing a shock wave to impact an object  
The present invention is directed to a device for producing a shock wave to impact an object that includes a transfer member. The device has a voice coil assembly including a permanent magnet and a...
6264664 Surgical basket devices  
Surgical basket instruments according to the invention generally include a sheath (catheter), a shaft extending through and axially movable relative to the sheath, a basket assembly coupled to a...
6261298 Device for concrement destruction or crushing  
A device for concrement destruction or crushing is disclosed which comprises an elongate probe adapted to be introduced into the human body, a drive unit that accelerates an impact body and a lever...
6248113 Device for the electrolytic dissolution of urinary stones and related method of treatment of urinary calculosis  
A device for the electrolytic dissolution of urinary calculi in patients affected by urinary calculosis, the particularity whereof consists of the fact that it has: a tubular sleeve which is meant...
6217588 Flexible probe for use in lithotripsy  
A metallic flexible probe for use in shock wave lithotripsy is provided next to its head portion and approximately at a transition to an adjoining initial length of the probe with a rated break...
6214017 Ultrasonic surgical apparatus  
An improved ultrasonic surgical apparatus includes an ultrasonic handpiece. An ultrasonic fragmenting tool is mountable within the handpiece, the tool having a vibratable tip adapted for...
6203537 Laser-driven acoustic ablation catheter  
An acoustic ablation catheter includes a mass cap mounted by a spring at the distal end of the catheter, to thereby form a structure capable of axial motion with a resonant frequency. The mass cap...
6203516 Phacoemulsification device and method for using dual loop frequency and power control  
The invention is an improved phacoemulsification probe drive circuit for supplying electrical power to an ultrasonic transducer. The drive circuit has a power control loop and a frequency control...
6193730 Surgical extractor  
The surgical extractor has three distinct portions respectively called "body", "gripper" and "pusher". The body is rigid and rectilinear and has a first end from which an handle integrally projects...
RE37024 Endoscopic lithotripsy system  
An endoscopic lithotriptor including an elongated, flexible stone impacting member in the form of a wire whose distal end is brought against a stone to be broken and whose proximal end is adapted...
6149656 Electrodynamic lithotriptor  
An apparatus to introduce impact pulses into the human body has an impact transmitter (8) displaceable in an axial direction and an electromagnetic impact generator (2, 6; 26, 24; 36, 34) driven by...
6113558 Pulsed mode lysis method  
An apparatus and method for the application of ultrasound to a location within the body is provided. The apparatus can advantageously operate at a pulse duration below about 100 milliseconds and in...
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