Methods, devices and systems for sensing, measuring and/or characterizing vessel and/or lesion compliance and/or elastance changes during vascular procedures

US10335042B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Victor L. Schoenle · Greenfield, US
• Thomas B. Hoegh · Edina, US
• Bruce J. Persson · Dresser, US
• Kayla J. Eichers · Minneapolis, US
• Matthew Wayne Tilstra · Rogers, US
• Richard C. Mattison · Corcoran, US
• Joseph P. Higgins · Minnetonka, US
• Michael J. Grace · Stacy, US
• Matthew Saterbak · Robbinsdale, US
• Matthew D. Cambronne · Stillwater, US
• Robert E. Kohler · Lake Elmo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 16, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2019
• Expiry date: Jul 16, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H70/20
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present system is directed in various embodiments to methods, devices and systems for sensing, measuring and evaluating compliance in a bodily conduit. In other embodiments, the methods, devices and systems sense, measure, determine, display and/or interpret compliance in a bodily conduit and/or a lesion within the bodily conduit. In all embodiments, the sensing, measuring, determining, displaying and/or interpreting may occur before, during and/or after a procedure performed within the bodily conduit. An exemplary conduit comprises a blood vessel and an exemplary procedure comprises a vascular procedure such as atherectomy, angioplasty, stent placement and/or biovascular scaffolding.