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7211055 System and method providing directional ultrasound therapy to skeletal joints  
An ultrasound therapy system and method is provided that provides directional, focused ultrasound to localized regions of tissue within body joints, such as spinal joints. An ultrasound emitter or...
7211041 Apparatus and method for delivering therapeutic and diagnostic agents  
A drug-delivery tool and method for delivering a diagnostic or therapeutic agent to a target site within a selected body tissue, such as the myocardium of the heart, is disclosed. The drug-delivery...
7209783 Ablation stent for treating atrial fibrillation  
An apparatus and method for treating atrial fibrillation with ablation therapy in which a stent is deployed within a pulmonary vein and tissue surrounding the stent is ablated with radiofrequency...
7207989 Method for ablating with needle electrode  
A method for ablating tissue in or around the heart to create an enhanced lesion is provided. The distal end of a catheter including a needle electrode at its distal end is introduced into the...
7207988 Method and apparatus for providing intra-pericardial access  
A method and apparatus for accessing the pericardial space which provides for stable short term or long term placement of a delivery catheter or cannula having its distal most end located in the...
7207987 Catheter exhibiting improved electrical properties as well as a device and processing method for improving electrical properties of catheters  
In order in the case of a catheter for the ablation of biological, in particular of animal or human, tissue, preferably for the ablation of human myocardial tissue, having at least one ablation or...
7204846 Beauty device  
A beauty device includes a light irradiation section that irradiates light of a predetermined wavelength, and an ion generating section that generates an ion. The light irradiation section is...
7204834 Apparatus for the treatment of tumors  
In apparatus for the treatment of tumors, comprising at least one generator having a power source, and at least two electrode needles for conducting current into, or out of, a tumor, a control...
7201750 System for treating articular cartilage defects  
An electrosurgical probe ( 10 ) comprises a shaft ( 13 ) having an electrode array ( 58 ) at its distal end and a connector ( 19 ) at its proximal end for coupling the electrode array to a high...
7201749 Externally-applied high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for pulmonary vein isolation  
Apparatus is provided for performing ablation of cardiac tissue using ultrasound. The apparatus includes a beacon, adapted to be placed at a cardiac site in a body of a subject. The apparatus...
7200445 Energy delivery devices and methods  
This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device when used in tortuous anatomy.
7200444 Method and device for electro-acupuncture  
The present invention provides a principally novel method and a device for percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and electro-acupuncture. It consists of inserting the needles/electrodes into...
7198635 Modification of airways by application of energy  
This relates to methods and devices for treating reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and more particularly, relates to a device for exchanging energy with airway tissue such as that...
7198625 Surgical instrument with retractable sheath  
An electrosurgical suction/irrigation instrument includes a shaft hub, an electrically conductive member, and a sheath. The conductive member has a proximal end mounted to the shaft hub and a...
7197349 La placian electrode  
A catheter tip for mapping is provided. The medical probe tip includes a first mapping ring electrode and a second mapping ring electrode that is electrically insulated from the first mapping ring...
7195629 Methods and systems for focused bipolar tissue ablation  
Large tissue regions are treated using pairs of electrode arrays. The electrode arrays may be concave and disposed in tissue so that their concave portions are opposed to each other. Axial...
7195628 Atrial fibrillation therapy with pulmonary vein support  
A system and method for treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation by destruction of conductive pathways between the pulmonary veins and the left atrium. A stent is delivered by catheter to the...
7194294 Multi-functional medical catheter and methods of use  
The present invention provides multi-functional medical catheters, systems and methods for their use. In one particular embodiment, a medical catheter ( 100 ) includes a flexible elongate body (...
7192430 Apparatuses and methods for interstitial tissue removal  
Apparatuses and methods for removing solid tissue from beneath a tissue surface are described. The methods rely on positioning an energy conductive element at a target site beneath the tissue...
7192429 Thermokeratoplasty systems  
The present invention provides applicators for performing thermokeratoplasty. One embodiment of such applicators includes two generally tubular electrical conducting elements coaxially disposed...
7192428 Systems for epidermal tissue ablation  
A system and method for surface tissue ablation on the patient's outer skin, such as the epidermis or the underlying dermis. An electrosurgical probe ( 130 ) comprises a shaft ( 132 ) having an...
7192427 Apparatus and method for assessing transmurality of a tissue ablation  
An instrument is provided to assess the transmurality of an ablation lesion from a first surface of a targeted biological tissue to an opposed second surface thereof. The instrument includes at...
7189231 Electrosurgical methods and apparatus for making precise incisions in body vessels  
Methods and apparatus employed in surgery involving making precise incisions in vessels of the body, particularly cardiac blood vessels in coronary revascularization procedures conducted on the...
7189230 Method for treating skin and underlying tissue  
A method for treating a tissue site couples an energy delivery surface of an electromagnetic energy delivery device with a skin surface. An underlying tissue area beneath the skin surface is...
7187963 Bidirectional catheter having mapping assembly  
A bidirectional mapping catheter is provided. The catheter comprises an elongated flexible tubular catheter body having an axis and proximal and distal ends. A mapping assembly, which is mounted at...
7186251 Energy based devices and methods for treatment of patent foramen ovale  
Methods, devices and systems for treating patent foramen ovale (PFO) involve advancing a catheter device to a position in a heart for treating a PFO, bringing tissues adjacent the PFO at least...
7186250 Method and apparatus for positioning a diagnostic or therapeutic element within the body and tip electrode for use with same  
Surgical methods and apparatus for positioning diagnostic an therapeutic elements on the epicardium or other organ surface. The apparatus include a relatively short shaft and an adjustable loop...
7184811 Apparatus for mapping and coagulating soft tissue in or around body orifices  
A probe that may be used to create circumferential lesions in body tissue and, in some implementations, may also be used to perform mapping functions. The probe includes a collapsible/expandable...
7182764 Steerable loop structures for supporting diagnostic and therapeutic elements in contact with body tissue  
A probe that includes a elongate body and a steerable loop structure that supports electrodes or other operative elements against the body tissue.
7182763 Wound closure device  
Disclosed is a wound closure device and method for using the same. The wound closure device includes a handle, a body portion extending distally from the handle, a stapling mechanism extending...
7182762 Electrosurgical device  
An electrosurgical device includes a high dielectric material and at least one conductor arranged relative to the high dielectric material such that, in use, the high dielectric material is...
7182761 Ablation probe with temperature sensitive electrode array  
A medical probe assembly and method are provided for ablating tissue. The probe assembly comprises an elongated shaft and an electrode array mechanically coupled to the distal end of the shaft. The...
7179257 Devices, systems and methods for treating tissue regions of the body  
Improved devices, systems and methods for treating a tissue region provide straightforward, yet reliable ways for installing diverse functional components within the confined space of a...
7179256 Catheter with ablation needle and mapping assembly  
The invention is directed to a catheter that creates enhanced lesions using a needle electrode and can simultaneously map electrical activity at a plurality of points using an enhanced mapping...
7179255 Methods for targeted electrosurgery on contained herniated discs  
Apparatus and methods for treating an intervertebral disc by ablation of disc tissue. A method of the invention includes positioning at least one active electrode within the intervertebral disc,...
7178231 Electrode assembly for a thermokeratoplasty system used to correct vision acuity  
An electrode assembly that can be used to apply current to a cornea. The assembly includes a tip that is attached to a stop. The stop is pressed into an inner channel of an electrode body. The stop...
7175619 Loop structures for positioning a diagnostic or therapeutic element on the epicardium or other organ surface  
Loop structures for positioning diagnostic an therapeutic elements on the epicardium or other organ surface.
7175618 High frequency power source  
A high frequency electrosurgical power generator configured to produce electrical power at a frequency of about 1 to about 14 MHz and preferably having an essentially sinusoidal waveform with a...
7172592 Self-evacuating electrocautery device  
A device for selectively providing electrical energy from an electrosurgical generator for alternatively searing and coagulating tissue of a patient during surgery is provided. The electrocautery...
7169146 Electrosurgical probe and method of use  
An electrosurgical instrument that allows precise modulation of active Rf density in an engaged tissue volume. The working end of the instrument has a tissue-contacting surface of a...
7169144 Apparatus and method for creating, maintaining, and controlling a virtual electrode used for the ablation of tissue  
The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for producing a virtual electrode within or upon a tissue to be treated with radio frequency alternating electric current, such tissues...
7169143 Methods for electrosurgical tissue treatment in electrically conductive fluid  
An electrosurgical probe comprises a shaft having at least one electrode terminal at its distal end and a connector at its proximal end. The electrode terminal may be spaced from a return electrode...
7166105 Pen-type electrosurgical instrument  
An electrocautery device is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the electrocautery electrode/tip is provided with a hollow, conductive tube terminating at its distal end in a...
7166104 Composite material braided insulator  
An ablation probe, comprises a distal substantially tubular electrode, a proximal substantially tubular electrode and a substantially tubular dielectric element. A proximal end of the dielectric...
7166103 High efficiency electrosurgical ablator with electrode subjected to oscillatory or other repetitive motion  
A high efficiency electrosurgical ablator which is subjected to a combined oscillatory and mechanical debridement motion during resection of tissue is disclosed. The electrosurgical ablator is...
7166075 Elastographic imaging of in vivo soft tissue  
Elastographic images provide visualization in two or three dimensions of RF ablation lesions to guide in the ablation process. Compression may be applied using the RF probe. A similar technique may...
7165552 Methods and apparatus for treatment of patent foramen ovale  
Methods and apparatus for treatment of patent foramen ovale (PFO) generally involve use of a catheter having at least one closure device at its distal end. In some embodiments, the catheter also...
7165551 Apparatus to detect and treat aberrant myoelectric activity  
An apparatus to treat a sphincter has a support member. A sphincter electropotential mapping device includes a mapping electrode. The sphincter electropotential mapping device is coupled to the...
7163537 Enhanced ablation and mapping catheter and method for treating atrial fibrillation  
A catheter for measuring electrical activity and ablating tissue is provided. The catheter comprises an elongated generally-tubular catheter body. A non-retractable electrode assembly is mounted at...
7163536 Determining connections of multiple energy sources and energy delivery devices  
A method and system are disclosed for the mapping of energy delivery devices to energy sources. Energy capable of affecting a measurable property of the system is delivered through the energy...
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