|
Match
|
Document |
Document Title |
|
|
7613523 |
Aesthetic thermal sculpting of skin
Method, system and apparatus for carrying out a controlled heating of dermis to achieve a percentage of linear collagen shrinkage. Implants are employed which preferably are configured as a thermal...
|
|
|
7594925 |
Control systems for delivering energy
Methods for treating a network of organs including generating a map of at least a portion of the network of organs using a rendering system; selecting at least one treatment location within the...
|
|
|
7575566 |
Catheter having circular ablation assembly
A catheter particularly useful for ablation lesions within a tubular region of or near the heart is provided. The catheter comprises an elongated flexible tubular catheter body having an axis and...
|
|
|
7567843 |
System method and apparatus for localized heating of tissue
System method and apparatus for accurately carrying out the in situ heating of a targeted tissue. Small implants are employed with the targeted tissue which exhibit an abrupt change of magnetic...
|
|
|
7566341 |
Multiple lumen heat exchange catheters
Catheter devices and methods for intravascular heating and/or cooling of human or veterinary patients. The catheter devices generally comprise catheters having inflow and outflow lumens and at...
|
|
|
7540853 |
Method and apparatus for diverting blood flow during ablation procedures
A diversion catheter for use during ablation procedures includes a distal occlusion device such as a diversion balloon. The diversion balloon blocks blood flowing through a cardiac vein. The...
|
|
|
7527642 |
Hinged therapeutic mouthpiece
This invention relates to devices for insertion into the mouth for the application of heat or cold to oral tissue to provide a therapeutic effect. The device 10 includes an upper member 11 ...
|
|
|
7507236 |
System and method for electrosurgical cutting and ablation
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...
|
|
|
7500985 |
Apparatus and methods for cooling a region within the body
Apparatus and methods for cooling selected regions within a body are described herein. An implantable cooling system is used to cool regions of the brain, spinal cord, fibrous nerve bodies, e.g.,...
|
|
|
7494504 |
Methods and apparatus for regional and whole body temperature modification
Methods and apparatus for temperature modification of selected body regions including an induced state of local hypothermia of the brain region for neuroprotection. A heat exchange catheter is...
|
|
|
7474909 |
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...
|
|
|
7462178 |
Systems and methods for electrosurgical spine surgery
Methods and apparatus for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the spine. In a method of the invention high...
|
|
|
7449021 |
Systems and methods for electrosurgical tissue contraction within the spine
The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the spine. The present...
|
|
|
7449018 |
Method and device for performing cooling- or cryo-therapies for, e.g., angioplasty with reduced restenosis or pulmonary vein cell necrosis to inhibit atrial fibrillation employing microporous balloon
An enhanced method and device are provided to inhibit or reduce restenosis following angioplasty or stent placement. A porous balloon-tipped catheter is disposed in the area treated or opened...
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
7438714 |
Vacuum-based catheter stabilizer
A medical probe for use with tissue includes an elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end, an operative element carried at the distal end of the elongate member, and a stabilizer...
|
|
|
7422601 |
Method for inducing hypothermia
Systems for phase-change particulate slurry cooling equipment and methods to induce hypothermia in a patient through internal and external cooling are provided. Subcutaneous, intravascular,...
|
|
|
7419500 |
Device for thermal ablation of a cavity
An apparatus and method for causing necrosis of tissue and specifically intended for thermal ablation of the uterine cavity to cauterizing the endometrial tissue. The apparatus includes a...
|
|
|
7419489 |
Ablation catheter assembly having a virtual electrode comprising portholes
An ablation catheter having a catheter shaft and a virtual electrode, the virtual electrode comprising portholes through an outer peripheral wall of the catheter shaft and a metal electrode, the...
|
|
|
7393351 |
Apparatus and methods for treating cervical inter-vertebral discs
Apparatus and methods for treating an inter-vertebral disc by ablation, coagulation, shrinking, stiffening, or other treatment of disc tissue. A method of the invention includes positioning at...
|
|
|
7387625 |
Methods and apparatus for treating intervertebral discs
Apparatus and methods for treating a target tissue by delivering a fluid at a defined temperature to a patient's body. An apparatus of the invention includes a fluid delivery unit for delivering...
|
|
|
7371254 |
Medical procedure
The use of an intravascular cooling element to induce hypothermia in connection with a medical procedure. According to a first aspect of the present, invention, a coronary bypass procedure is...
|
|
|
7346389 |
Dilation enhancer with pre-medicated contact lenses
A contact lens with a conductive outer shell (one electrode of a two-electrode electrophoresis device) and a preferably soft, preferably disposable contact lens for contacting a patient's eye,...
|
|
|
RE40156 |
Methods for repairing damaged intervertebral 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,...
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
7315762 |
Non-surgical incontinence treatment system and method
Devices, systems, and methods can treat incontinence by heating between about 100 and about 800 cubic millimeters of endopelvic fascia for sufficient time to effect substantial collagenous tissue...
|
|
|
7306621 |
Heat transfer control for a prosthetic retinal device
A method for controlling heat dissipated from a prosthetic retinal device is described. A heat transfer device employs the Peltier heat transfer effect to cool the surface of the retinal device...
|
|
|
7300453 |
System and method for inducing hypothermia with control and determination of catheter pressure
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for temperature control of the human body. The system includes an indwelling catheter with a tip-mounted heat transfer element. The catheter is...
|
|
|
7294142 |
Selective organ cooling catheter with guidewire apparatus and temperature-monitoring device
A catheter and method for heating or cooling a surrounding fluid in a feeding vessel in a vasculature of a patient. The catheter includes a heat transfer element shaped and arranged to create...
|
|
|
7285119 |
Ablation catheter assembly and method for isolating a pulmonary vein
A catheter body includes a proximal portion, an intermediate portion extending from the proximal portion and defining a longitudinal axis, and a distal portion extending from the intermediate...
|
|
|
7270659 |
Methods for electrosurgical treatment of spinal tissue
Systems, apparatus, and methods for treating spinal tissue and other body structures in open and endoscopic spine surgery to relieve symptoms, such as neck or back pain. In particular, the present...
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
7241293 |
Electrode screen enhanced electrosurgical apparatus and methods for ablating tissue
Electrosurgical methods and apparatus for the controlled ablation of tissue from a target site of a patient. The instrument includes a shaft having proximal and distal end portion and an active...
|
|
|
7229469 |
Methods for treating and repairing mitral valve annulus
A catheter system and methods for repairing a valvular annulus or an annular organ structure of a patient comprising intimately contacting the annular organ structure by a tissue-contactor member...
|
|
|
7217268 |
Method for electrosurgical tissue treatment near a patient's heart
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...
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
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...
|
|
|
7189253 |
Cerebral temperature control
A system ( 10 ) for cerebral temperature control of a living being, comprising a double lumen catheter means ( 30 ) configured to be introduced through a nostril of a living being and to be placed...
|
|
|
7186222 |
Vascular introducer with temperature monitoring probe and systems for endovascular temperature control
An introducer sheath/temperature probe assembly that is insertable into a blood vessel of a human or veterinary patent to measure the temperature of blood flowing through that blood vessel. The...
|
|
|
7167757 |
Energy induced bulking and buttressing of tissue for incontinence
Devices, systems, and method for treating urinary incontinence generally rely on energy delivered to a patient's own pelvic support tissue to selectively contract or shrink at least a portion of...
|
|
|
7156868 |
Heat transfer devices
A catheter having a heat transfer device at or near its distal end, wherein the heat transfer device is layered or coated onto or into the catheter wall is described. The heat transfer device is...
|
|
|
7156867 |
Uniform selective cerebral hypothermia
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for uniform selective cerebral hypothermia. The apparatus includes a brain-cooling probe, a head-cooling cap, a body-heating device and a control console. The...
|
|
|
7156845 |
Method and apparatus for creating a bi-polar virtual electrode used for the ablation of tissue
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...
|
|
|
7113832 |
Interstitial microwave antenna with miniaturized choke hyperthermia in medicine and surgery
The present invention relates to minimally invasive surgery techniques. It provides a method for manufacturing an antenna for percutaneous acute hyperthermia microwave applications of the monopole...
|
|
|
7113831 |
Transmural ablation device
A method and apparatus for transmural ablation using an instrument containing two electrodes or cryogenic probes. A clamping force is exerted on the two electrodes or probes such that the tissue of...
|
|
|
7113821 |
Tissue electroperforation for enhanced drug delivery
The present invention relates to a method and a device for transporting a molecule through a mammalian barrier membrane of at least one layer of cells comprising the steps of: ablating the membrane...
|
|
|
7104986 |
Intervertebral disc replacement method
The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the spine. The present...
|
|
|
7097657 |
Dual IV bag arrangement for intravascular temperature control catheter cooling circuit
A fluid circuit for circulating coolant in a closed loop between an intravascular catheter and a heat exchange system includes a buffer IV bag in fluid flow series with the catheter between the...
|
|
|
7083612 |
Cryotherapy system
A cryotherapy system is provided with multiple cryoprobes, each of which has a shaft with a closed distal end adapted for insertion into a body and conduits for flowing a cryogenic fluid through...
|
|
|
7081112 |
Cryogenically enhanced intravascular interventions
The invention provides techniques and devices for treating atherosclerotic disease using controlled cryogenic cooling, often in combination with angioplusty. The efficacy of endolusninal cryogenic...
|