US 10,244,947 B2Granted

Method for diagnosis and treatment of blood vessel

AssigneeTerumo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsNaofumi Okajima, Ryo Okamura

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Abstract

An introducer having a dilator positioned in a sheath is inserted into a first blood vessel and, thereafter, only the dilator tube is drawn out of the first blood vessel and the sheath while the sheath remains in the first blood vessel. A diagnostic instrument having an outer diameter smaller than a maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into the sheath tube is inserted into the second blood vessel, and a stenosis of the second blood vessel is diagnosed. While keeping the sheath indwelling in the first blood vessel, a therapeutic instrument or a catheter permitting the therapeutic instrument to be inserted therein, which therapeutic instrument or catheter has a maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into the sheath tube, is inserted into the second blood vessel, and the second blood vessel is treated.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method of treating a stenosis comprising:

inserting an introducer into a first blood vessel of a patient, the introducer comprising a dilator positioned inside a selected sheath which possesses open distal and proximal ends, the dilator comprising a distal end, the introducer being inserted into the first blood vessel while the distal end of the dilator extends distally beyond the distal end of the selected sheath, the selected sheath comprising an outer diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter of a first sheath and an inner diameter substantially equal to an inner diameter of a second sheath which has a Fr size that is one Fr size larger than a Fr size of the first sheath;
drawing out the dilator from the first blood vessel and from the selected sheath while the selected sheath is kept indwelled in the first blood vessel;
inserting a diagnostic instrument into the selected sheath that is indwelled in the first blood vessel, through the first blood vessel and into a second blood vessel, the diagnostic instrument having an outer diameter inserted into the selected sheath that is smaller than a maximum outer diameter which can be inserted into and moved along the selected sheath;
diagnosing, through use of the diagnostic instrument, whether the stenosis exists in the second blood vessel;
drawing out the diagnostic instrument from the second blood vessel, the first blood vessel and the selected sheath;
inserting a therapeutic instrument or a catheter permitting insertion of the therapeutic instrument, through the selected sheath that is indwelled in the first blood vessel so that the therapeutic instrument or the catheter is inserted through the first blood vessel and then into the second blood vessel, the therapeutic instrument or the catheter having the maximum outer diameter which is permitted to be inserted into the selected sheath and moved along the selected sheath, and when the catheter permitting insertion of the therapeutic instrument is inserted through the selected sheath and the first blood vessel and into the second blood vessel, the therapeutic instrument is inserted through the catheter and the first blood vessel and into the second blood vessel;
and
treating the stenosis in the second blood vessel through use of the therapeutic instrument.

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A method of inserting an angiography catheter and a guiding catheter through a first blood vessel into a second blood vessel of a patient, the method comprising:

preparing an introducer including a selected sheath and a dilator positioned in the selected sheath, the selected sheath comprising an outer diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter of a first sheath and an inner diameter substantially equal to an inner diameter of a second sheath which has a Fr size that is one Fr size larger than a Fr size of the first sheath, the dilator comprising an outer diameter substantially equal to the inner diameter of the selected sheath and being positioned in and movable along the selected sheath;
inserting the introducer into the first blood vessel while the dilator is positioned in the selected sheath;
removing the dilator from the selected sheath while the selected sheath remains indwelled in the first blood vessel;
inserting the angiography catheter through the selected sheath and the first blood vessel and into the second blood vessel, the angiography catheter having an outer diameter equal to or smaller than a maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into and movement along the selected sheath;
diagnosing, through use of the angiography catheter, whether or not the second blood vessel is stenosed;
removing the angiography catheter from the first and second blood vessels and from the selected sheath;
and
inserting the guiding catheter, having the maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into the selected sheath, through the selected sheath and the first blood vessel and into the second blood vessel, without replacing the selected sheath with another sheath having a size larger than the inner diameter of the selected sheath.

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A method of inserting an angiography catheter and a guiding catheter through a first blood vessel into a second blood vessel of a patient, the method comprising:

preparing an introducer including a selected sheath and a dilator positioned in the selected sheath, the selected sheath comprising an outer diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter of a first sheath and an inner diameter substantially equal to an inner diameter of a second sheath which has a Fr size that is one Fr size larger than a Fr size of the first sheath, the dilator comprising an outer diameter substantially equal to the inner diameter of the selected sheath and being positioned in and movable along the selected sheath;
inserting the introducer into the first blood vessel while the dilator is positioned in the selected sheath;
removing the dilator from the selected sheath while the selected sheath remains indwelled in the first blood vessel;
inserting the angiography catheter through the selected sheath and the first blood vessel and into the second blood vessel, the angiography catheter having an outer diameter equal to or smaller than a maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into and movement along the selected sheath;
diagnosing, through use of the angiography catheter, whether or not the second blood vessel is stenosed;
removing the angiography catheter from the first and second blood vessels and from the selected sheath;
and
inserting the guiding catheter, having the maximum outer diameter permitting insertion into the selected sheath, through the selected sheath and the first blood vessel and into the second blood vessel, without replacing the selected sheath with another sheath having a size larger than the inner diameter of the selected sheath.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/463,115Filed 20 Mar 2017 · continuation
Priority: 19 Apr 2012
Published: US 2017/0189651 A16 Jul 2017
Granted: 2 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A61B 5/02007
Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the cardiovascular system, e.g. pulse, heart rate, blood pressure or blood flow: evaluating blood…
A61B 17/3207
Excision instruments: atherectomy devices working by cutting or abrading; Similar devices specially adapted for non-vascular obstructions
A61M 25/0102
Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters: insertion or introduction using an inner stiffening member, e.g. stylet or push-rod
A61M 25/065
Body-piercing guide needles or the like: guide needles

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Application61/635,617Us provisional application · filed 19 Apr 2012
Application13/866,415Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Apr 2013
US 2017/0189651 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Jul 2017
US 9,649,035 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0281850 A1Published application
US 10,244,947 B2This patent

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