| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7591832 |
Expandable guide sheath and apparatus with distal protection and methods for use |
September 22, 2009 |
| Apparatus and methods provide distal protection while accessing blood vessels within a patient's vasculature. A flexible sheath and distal protection element, e.g., a balloon or filter, are carried by a stiffening member. The sheath is lubricious and has a relatively thin wall, there |
| 7575569 |
Apparatus and methods for delivering stem cells and other agents into cardiac tissue |
August 18, 2009 |
| Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for delivering stem cells or other agents to cardiac tissue surrounding a cardiac vessel or to tissue adjacent other body lumens. The apparatus includes an expandable member and a source of one or more agents communicating with a lumen extendi |
| 7556710 |
Catheters with lubricious linings and methods for making and using them |
July 7, 2009 |
| Coated devices for introduction into bodies and methods for making and using them are provided, such as delivery sheaths, guidewire lumen cores, and elongate leads. In one embodiment, a tubular device includes a proximal end, a distal end sized for introduction into a body lumen, and |
| 7553387 |
Catheters with lubricious linings and methods for making and using them |
June 30, 2009 |
| A method for making a tubular device includes coating a first surface of a thin sheet, rolling the sheet such that side edges of the sheet are disposed adjacent one another with the coating disposed inwardly, creating a longitudinal seam along the side edges to create a sleeve, and a |
| 7550053 |
Catheters with lubricious linings and methods for making and using them |
June 23, 2009 |
| Apparatus and methods are provided for substantially continuously forming thin-walled sleeves that may be incorporated into tubular devices sized for introduction into a patient. In one embodiment, a pair of sheets including coated surfaces oriented towards one another are directed t |
| 6945977 |
Systems and methods for clot disruption and retrieval |
September 20, 2005 |
| 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 blood vessel, and a positioning cage deployed at a treatment site. The macerator is then |
| 6702830 |
Mechanical pump for removal of fragmented matter and methods of manufacture and use |
March 9, 2004 |
| Material transport catheters and methods for their use rely on rotation of an impeller within a catheter body. The impeller preferably comprises an inner tube or shaft having a helical rotor formed over an outer surface thereof. Optionally, in the case of a tubular shaft, a second helica |
| 6663613 |
System and methods for clot dissolution |
December 16, 2003 |
| Clot disruption and dissolution are achieved using a catheter having both an agitator and the ability to deliver a thrombolytic agent. The catheter is introduced to a target region with a blood vessel and the agitator manipulated to engage and disrupt a region of clot therein. The th |
| 6660014 |
Systems and methods for clot disruption and retrieval |
December 9, 2003 |
| 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 blood vessel, and a positioning cage deployed at a treatment site. The macerator is then |
| 6652548 |
Expansible shearing catheters for thrombus removal |
November 25, 2003 |
| Devices, methods, kits, and methods remove clot material from the vasculature and other body lumens. Expansible baskets may be used as cooperating radially expansible shearing members. Helically oriented struts of each basket may wind in a uniform circumferential direction. The strut |
| 6454775 |
Systems and methods for clot disruption and retrieval |
September 24, 2002 |
| 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 blood vessel, and a positioning cage deployed at a treatment site. The macerator is then |
