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7611512 |
Interleaved array of bipolar electrodes
Apparatus including a first electromagnetic energy element that includes protrusions that jut into recesses formed in a second electromagnetic energy element, and a source of electromagnetic energy...
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7608073 |
Energy based partial circumferential hemorrhoid repair device
An energy based partial circumferential hemorrhoid repair device including an actuator assembly, and an energy based partial circumferential hemorrhoid repair device head assembly operatively...
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7604635 |
Fluid-assisted medical devices, systems and methods
Surgical devices, systems and methods for treating tissue. An exemplary surgical device comprises a tip portion including first and second jaws each having a tissue grasping surface, at least one...
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7594916 |
Electrosurgical forceps with energy based tissue division
An electrosurgical bipolar forceps for sealing and dividing tissue is disclosed. The forceps includes one or more shaft members having an end effector assembly disposed at a distal end thereof. The...
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7594914 |
Incision and closure surgical device
Incision and closure surgical device designed to assist in operative surgery as a means of effecting and repairing skin wounds. A slide fastener is fitted to a self-adhesive sheet that is attached...
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7585297 |
RF electrode array for low-rate collagen shrinkage in capsular shift procedures and methods of use
Methods and apparatus are provided for an achieving low-rate collagen shrinkage using an electrode array comprising an elongated insulator strip having at least one pair of spaced-apart bi-polar RF...
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7582086 |
Surgical clamp
A novel surgical clamp having a pair of jaws, which may be used to ablate or create leisons in tissue. In embodiment, the jaws have an articulated position wherein the jaws are separated and not...
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7578818 |
Articulating ionizable gas coagulator
An electrosurgical apparatus for coagulating tissue includes an elongated flexible tube having a proximal end, a distal end and a source for supplying pressurized ionizable gas to the proximal end...
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RE40863 |
Apparatus and method for sealing vascular punctures
An apparatus for closing and sealing a vascular puncture is connected to an energy supply such that heat is generated in, or thermally conducted to, the tissue, thereby thermally fusing the...
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7556627 |
Mucosal ablation device
A medical device for performing a therapeutic procedure on a patient. The device includes a body that is sized and shaped to engage a working end of an endoscope. The body has a recess therein. The...
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7549991 |
Bipolar endoscopic device with parallel electrodes for endoluminal and transluminal haemostasis
A surgical device including a shaft defining an axis and having a distal end and a proximal end, a first elongated electrode pivotally connected to the distal end of the shaft and deployable from a...
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7544195 |
Electrocautery surgical scissors
Surgical apparatus includes bipolar electrodes and tissue-shearing blades configured to electrically contact tissue for electrocauterization thereof prior to shearing contact of the cutting blades...
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7540872 |
Articulating bipolar electrosurgical instrument
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument has a pair of pivotable juxtaposed jaw members and a locking mechanism operatively associated with a second of the jaw members. The locking mechanism has a...
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7537595 |
Fluid-assisted medical devices, systems and methods
A medical device is provided which comprises a catheter tube having a distal end and a lumen, and configured to assist in applying tamponage to a bleeding source in a gastrointestinal tract when...
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7527624 |
Electrical probe for microsurgery
In order to develop an electric probe for microsurgery, which is provided in particular in ophthalmology for intraocular treatments of the eye, in such a way that the probe is constructed in a...
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7520877 |
Radiofrequency ablation system using multiple prong probes
Efficient ablation with multiple prong electrodes is obtained by electrically isolating the prongs from each other and rapidly switching electric power between the prongs, between a prong and a...
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7519410 |
La placian electrode
A medical probe for mapping is provided. The medical probe includes an elongated member, a first mapping ring electrode mounted to the elongated member, and a second mapping ring electrode mounted...
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7500975 |
Spring loaded reciprocating tissue cutting mechanism in a forceps-style electrosurgical instrument
Open electrosurgical forceps for sealing tissue which include a pair of first and second shaft portions each having a jaw member disposed at a distal end thereof. Each of the jaw members includes...
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7491180 |
Apparatus and methods for templating and placement of artificial discs
A method of determining the size and/or placement of a prosthetic disc in a disc space between adjacent endplates of two vertebrae in a selected spinal area, comprising: using a computer to...
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7481807 |
Radiofrequency arthroscopic ablation device
A surgical device includes an elongated shaft having first and second electrically isolated electrodes coupled to the shaft such that an exposed portion of the second electrode is disposed around...
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7470271 |
Static devices and methods to shrink tissues for incontinence
The invention provides improved devices, methods, and systems for repeatably and reliably contracting fascia and other support tissues, particularly for the treatment of urinary incontinence....
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7468061 |
Transmural ablation device with integral EKG sensor
A method and apparatus for transmural ablation includes using an instrument comprising first and second jaws which each includes an ablation member. A clamping force is exerted on the two ablation...
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7458974 |
Apparatus and method for electrically induced thrombosis
An apparatus and method for electrically induced thrombosis. The surgical device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is for placement adjacent to, near, or within...
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7445621 |
Bipolar forceps having monopolar extension
An endoscopic forceps for treating tissue includes a housing having a shaft affixed thereto which has first and second jaw members attached to a distal end thereof. The forceps also includes an...
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7445618 |
Methods for tissue ablation using pulsed energy
An electrosurgical probe comprises a shaft having an electrode array ( 12 ) at its distal end and a connector at its proximal end. The array ( 12 ) includes a plurality of isolated electrode...
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7442191 |
Systems and methods for electrosurgical treatment of turbinates
The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within the head and neck of a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the...
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7419490 |
Bipolar electrosurgical scissors
Bipolar electrosurgical scissors for treating biological tissue include first and second scissor blades. A shearing surface and cutting edge of each blade is electrically neutral. The scissors...
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7419488 |
Electrosurgical probe with movable return electrode and methods related thereto
The present invention provides systems, apparatus, and methods for dissecting, resecting, severing, cutting, contracting, coagulating, or otherwise modifying a tissue or organ of a patient. An...
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7387631 |
Electro-cautery catheter
An integrated catheter assembly for enabling diverse endoscopic in situ therapies. The assembly includes a catheter with an irrigation fluid lumen, a distal electrode tip portion that acts as a...
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7387628 |
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...
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7384421 |
Slide-activated cutting assembly
An endoscopic bipolar forceps is provided. The forceps includes a housing, a shaft, a drive assembly, a handle assembly and a slide activated cutting assembly. The shaft is affixed to the housing...
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7377920 |
Laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument
A laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument for sealing tissue includes a handle having an elongated tube affixed thereto. The tube includes first and second jaw members having electrically...
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7357799 |
Thermal coagulation using hyperconductive fluids
This invention relates to the use of hyperconductive fluids to coagulate tissue within the intervertebral disc.
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7344535 |
Devices and methods for treatment of luminal tissue
Devices and methods are provided for treatment of tissue in a body lumen with an electrode deployment device. Embodiments typically include a device with a plurality of electrodes having a...
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7331957 |
Electrosurgical apparatus and methods for laparoscopy
Electrosurgical methods and apparatus for treating tissue at a target site of a patient. An electrosurgical instrument includes a shaft, having a shaft distal end and a shaft proximal end, and an...
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7322976 |
Apparatus and methods for closing vascular penetrations
Apparatus for sealing vascular penetrations comprise a shaft having an electrode or other energy-applying element at a distal end. The shaft is placed in a tissue tract over a blood vessel...
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7306599 |
Medical instrument and medical instrument system
A medical instrument includes an elongated insertion section, a pair of holding portions which hold tissue, a heat source portion, and an operation section which relatively opens/closes the holding...
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7306592 |
System and method for regulating an amount of thermal energy generated by an electrosurgical tool
An bipolar electrosurgical tool ( 10 ) for cauterizing or ablating tissue. The tool has a nose cone ( 12 ) which serves as a handle. A conductive shaft ( 14 ) extends from the nose cone. A tip...
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7297145 |
Bipolar electrosurgical clamp for removing and modifying tissue
The present invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to body tissue in order to ablate, contract, coagulate, or otherwise modify a target tissue...
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7288090 |
Internal indifferent electrode device for use with lesion creation apparatus and method of forming lesions using the same
An internal indifferent electrode device including a flexible shaft, an energy transmission device adapted to be inserted into the body supported on the shaft, and a connector adapted to mate with...
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7276063 |
Instrument for electrosurgical tissue treatment
Systems and methods are provided for applying a high frequency voltage in the presence of an electrically conductive fluid to create a relatively low-temperature plasma for ablation of tissue...
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7273480 |
Composite material braided insulator
A tissue penetrating probe includes a distal tissue piercing end; a first electrode; a second electrode; and a dielectric element. A proximal end of the dielectric element is bonded to a distal end...
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7261711 |
Electrosurgical instrument
A method and apparatus for creating a virtual electrode to ablate bodily tissue. The apparatus includes an outer tube, a first electrode, an inner tube and a second electrode. The outer tube is...
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7250050 |
Tubal sterilization device having sesquipolar electrodes and method for performing sterilization using the same
A tubal sterilization device having sesquipolar electrodes includes a hollow catheter defining an interior passageway, the catheter including a first end for insertion transcervically into a...
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7211084 |
Surgical system
An electrosurgical cutting blade ( 1 ) comprises a first electrode ( 2 ), a second electrode ( 3 ), and an electrical insulator ( 4 ) separating the first and second electrodes. The first and...
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7207990 |
Laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument
A laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument can apply a large closure force between its jaws without damaging the small yoke assembly. The instrument comprises: a first jaw having a first...
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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...
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7204835 |
Surgical instrument
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument comprises a handle ( 5 ), a body ( 1 ) joined to the handle, and a jaw assembly ( 12 ) joined to the body and arranged such that manipulation of the handle...
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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...
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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...
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