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7429264 |
Minimally invasive deployable cutting instrument
Instruments and methods for cutting tissue are disclosed. The instruments include one or more cutting members movable from a reduced profile undeployed position for insertion to the operative site...
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7416555 |
Intravascular material removal device
An intravascular material removal device that removes material from a vessel wall and creates flow dynamics that draw the material into a catheter device for removal from the vessel is provided. A...
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7413558 |
Elastically distensible folding member
An elastically distensible folding member is disclosed. The folding member can be formed with a wall that is substantially shaped as a tube when the folding member is in a relaxed (i.e. unstressed)...
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7407506 |
Device, system and method for interstitial transvascular intervention
Method and apparatus for utilizing the vascular system as a conduit to reach other vascular and extravascular locations within the body. Included are methods for revascularization wherein the...
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7404820 |
Method and device for filtering body fluid
Medical devices for filtering fluids flowing through a lumen and a method of forming medical devices. The devices can be used in vascular channels, urinary tracts, biliary ducts and the like, and...
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7399307 |
Apparatus and method for removing occlusive material within blood vessels
An apparatus for treating an occlusive region of a blood vessel includes a catheter including a first lumen extending from an end port to a first side port, and a second lumen extending from a...
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7396358 |
Device and method for converting a balloon catheter into a cutting balloon catheter
A lesion treating device for converting a standard balloon catheter into a cutting balloon catheter is provided. The device includes a longitudinal housing such as a tube which is sized to be...
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7371250 |
Method and device for filtering body fluid
Medical devices for filtering fluids flowing through a lumen and a method of forming medical devices. The devices can be used in vascular channels, urinary tracts, biliary ducts and the like, and...
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7367986 |
Method and device for filtering body fluid
Medical devices for filtering fluids flowing through a lumen and a method of forming medical devices. The devices can be used in vascular channels, urinary tracts, biliary ducts and the like, and...
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7367985 |
Method and device for filtering body fluid
Medical devices for filtering fluids flowing through a lumen and a method of forming medical devices. The devices can be used in vascular channels, urinary tracts, biliary ducts and the like, and...
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7367982 |
Method for opening a lumen in an occluded blood vessel
A method for opening a lumen in an occluded blood vessel, e.g., a coronary bypass graft, of a living being. The method entails using an instrument to deploy the stent at occlusive material within...
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7344546 |
Intralumenal material removal using a cutting device for differential cutting
Intralumenal material removal systems are provided using an advanceable and rotatable cutter assembly designed for differential cutting. The intralumenal material removal system includes a cutter...
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7331971 |
Living-body tissue removing apparatus
A living-body tissue removing apparatus according to the present invention includes a grip portion, an inserting portion which is connected to the grip portion and is inserted in the body, an...
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7329267 |
Medical cutting devices and methods of use
Intravascular cutting device that does not require an inflatable balloon for blade deployment. A cutting wire can be reversibly moved between a retracted, non-cutting position in which the cutting...
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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...
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7318830 |
Apparatus and method of use of a circular surgical stapler
A method and apparatus for removing a circumferential portion of a hollow body organ from a patient with a circular stapling instrument. The instrument is provided with a vacuum tubing in...
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7316697 |
Vessel cleaning system with asymmetrical auto retracting agitator
A vessel cleaning system for removing an obstruction from within a patient's vessel, the system comprising a housing, connected to a flexible-tube, a motor-driven flexible agitator-shaft rotatably...
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7309342 |
Heatless blood vessel harvesting device
A method and device are disclosed directed at harvesting of vessels, such as arteries and veins, especially as required in vessel grafting procedures. The device and method discloses a cannula-like...
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7303572 |
Catheter assembly with plaque cutting balloon
A balloon catheter assembly comprises an elongate catheter shaft having a proximal portion and a distal portion, and an inflatable balloon secured to the shaft distal portion. A plurality of...
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7303531 |
Excisional biopsy devices and methods
An excisional biopsy device includes a tubular member having a window near a distal tip thereof; a cutting tool, a distal end of the cutting tool being attached near the distal tip of the tubular...
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7291158 |
Cutting balloon catheter having a segmented blade
A cutting balloon catheter and method of making and using the same. The cutting balloon catheter may include a catheter shaft having a balloon coupled thereto. One or more cutting members or blades...
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7279002 |
Cutting stent and balloon
A stent or sheath having one or more cutting blades may be constructed for implantation in the body. A balloon having one or more cutting blades may be used with a stent or a sheath.
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7270673 |
Microsurgical balloon with protective reinforcement
A microsurgical balloon, with at least one incising component mounted to the surface of the balloon, includes a protective pad to prevent the outer surface of the incising component from coming...
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7264626 |
Blood vessel knife
A blood vessel knife allows a doctor to easily see a knife main body when holding it for surgical operation. In a blood vessel knife having a cutter holder at a tip portion of a rod-shaped grip,...
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7235088 |
Neuro thrombectomy catheter
An elongate tubular body extends between a rotatable cutter and a control. The cutter is connected to the control with a rotatable element. A vacuum is applied through an annular passage defined...
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7220269 |
Thrombectomy catheter system with occluder and method of using same
A thrombectomy catheter system with occluder and method of using same for removal of tissue, such as thrombus and the like, from a vessel in the body. Multiple catheters and an occluder-bearing...
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7179270 |
Methods for bypassing total or near-total obstructions in arteries or other anatomical conduits
Methods for bypassing total or near-total obstructions in arteries or other anatomical conduits. A guidewire is advanced through the lumen of the artery or anatomical conduit upstream of the...
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7179269 |
Apparatus and system for removing an obstruction from a lumen
An apparatus and system for removing an obstruction from a body lumen simultaneously mechanically dislodges the obstruction, macerates the obstruction, and aspirates the effluent caused thereby....
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7175605 |
Therapeutic catheter having sensor for monitoring distal environment
Apparatus with a pneumatic or hydraulic or mechanical therapeutic catheter. The therapy energy required to treat internal vessels of the patient is transferred by the same fluid or the same...
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7174240 |
Control system for rotational angioplasty device
A method for controlling fluid flow in a rotational atherectomy device. A source of fluid is provided through a pump to the rotational atherectomy device, wherein the pump maintains the fluid flow...
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7172610 |
Rotational atherectomy system with stationary cutting elements
An elongate tubular body extends between a rotatable cutter and a control. The cutter is connected to the control with a rotatable element. A vacuum is applied through an annular passage defined...
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7172609 |
Apparatus for supporting a segmented blade on a balloon catheter
A device for incising a stenosis in the vasculature of a patient includes a plurality of blades mounted on a resilient base member. The blades are arranged in a pattern to allow for relative...
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7163548 |
Ultrasonic surgical blade and instrument having a gain step
An ultrasonic surgical blade, and an instrument, having a gain step. The blade body has, in any half wave length of the ultrasonic-surgical-blade body, a first vibration antinode, a vibration node,...
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7163547 |
Harvester
A device is disclosed to remove veins from the body. These can be unwanted varicose veins or healthy veins of the arms and legs used for bypasses or fistula formation. This device has a handle for...
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7163546 |
Method and apparatus for avulsion of varicose veins
Apparatuses and methods for removing veins, usually varicose veins, rely on endoluminal capture of a distal end of the vein segment to be removed. In the illustrated embodiments, a shaft having...
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7153315 |
Catheter balloon with ultrasonic microscalpel blades
The present invention provides a catheter balloon, and balloon catheter incorporating the catheter balloon, useful in medical dilation procedures. The catheter balloon includes at least one...
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7150756 |
Radiopaque locking frame, filter and flexible end
The radially expandable frame utilized during catheterization includes a guide wire, a radiopaque radially expandable frame with distal and proximal frame ends wherein the guide wire freely passes...
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7131981 |
Device and method for converting a balloon catheter into a cutting balloon catheter
A lesion treating device for converting a standard balloon catheter into a cutting balloon catheter is provided. The device includes a longitudinal housing such as a tube which is sized to be...
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7122017 |
Fluid jet surgical instruments
The invention provides a variety of surgical instruments for forming a liquid jet, which are useful for performing a wide variety of surgical procedures. In some embodiments, the invention provides...
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7118584 |
Steerable sphincterotome and methods for cannulation, papillotomy and sphincterotomy
The present invention relates to methodology of and apparatus for accurately positioning devices for performing endoscopic cannulation, papillotomy and sphincterotomy and similar procedures. The...
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7108704 |
Percutaneous mechanical fragmentation catheter system
A percutaneous thrombolytic device, also referred to herein as a percutaneous mechanical fragmentation catheter system, that includes a wire cage or basket attached to a rotational drive motor. The...
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7105003 |
Surgical instrument
A surgical instrument ( 1 ) for the removal of tissue comprises an outer tube ( 2 ) having an opening ( 22 ) for the removal of tissue, fashioned in a distal region, preferentially in the vicinity...
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7104966 |
Guidewire system with exposed midsection
A flexible guidewire system with an exposed midsection, for crossing an obstruction located in a patient's vessel, comprising a flexible pilot wire and a flexible casing having a distal and...
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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...
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7077852 |
Methods and devices for blood vessel harvesting
Methods and devices for harvesting veins from the body. The methods and devices allow vein harvesting using laparoscopic procedures. A working space is created over the vein using standard...
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7066875 |
Apparatus and method for vein removal
A device and method for removing a generally cylindrical tissue structure such as a blood vessel from the body of a human or animal. The device includes a body portion having distal and proximal...
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7041113 |
Minimal invasive endoscopic methods and apparatus for harvesting blood vessels
A blood vessel in a patient is severed by inserting a shaft through an incision in the patient, the shaft carrying first and second clamps. The first and second clamps are closed against the vessel...
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7037316 |
Rotational thrombectomy device
A thrombectomy apparatus for breaking up thrombus or other obstructive material in a lumen of a vascular graft or vessel comprising a flexible sheath, and a wire positioned within the flexible...
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7033344 |
Methods for reducing distal embolization
A method for reducing distal embolization during insertion of devices to treat plaque, thrombi and other intravascular occlusions. Using a guide catheter, a guidewire is delivered to a site...
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7029483 |
Device for percutaneous cutting and dilating a stenosis of the aortic valve
A device for incising a stenosis in the aortic valve of a patient includes an elongated balloon catheter, with at least one straight blade mounted on the balloon. Specifically, the blade is...
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