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US 10,743,977 B2Granted
Intravascular blood filter
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorRandall T. Lashinski
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Abstract
Disclosed is a novel filter and delivery means. The device described within will not interfere with standard practice and tools used during standard surgical procedures and tools such as cannulas, clamps or dissection instruments including valve replacement sizing gages or other surgical procedures where the patient must be put on a heart-lung machine cross-clamping the aorta.
Claims11
A method of preventing foreign material from traveling into a carotid circulation, the method comprising:
- advancing a first filter system through a right subclavian artery, the first filter system comprising a first guide catheter and a first filter;
- expanding the first filter in a right common carotid artery;
- advancing a second filter system through a left subclavian artery, the second filter system comprising a second guide catheter and a second filter;
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- expanding the second filter in a second vessel.
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