Percutaneous myocardial revascularization marking and therapeutic or diagnostic agent delivery system
US6902562B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 29, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jun 7, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 29, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B2090/3933
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A system and method of marking percutaneous myocardial revascularization channels in a human heart and introducing into the channels a therapeutic or diagnostic agent by inserting a catheter system into the left ventricle of a heart, applying tissue ablative energy through the catheter to create a channel into the heart wall, introducing an imaging medium to the heart wall proximate the channel for marking the position of that channel for imaging, and introducing in or proximate the channel a therapeutic or diagnostic agent.
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