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US 2011/0087261 A1Published application
Device and Method for Transseptal Puncturing
AssigneeUMC Utrecht Holding B.V.
InventorsFrederik Henricus Mattheus Wittkampf, Helmert Van Wessel
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Abstract
Device for a medical procedure within the vasculature of a patient, comprising puncturing means provided at a distal end of the device for puncturing tissue in a supported state, and an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end provided with a puncturing means and a flexible length therebetween, wherein the elongate member is arranged to be advanced through the vasculature in an unsupported state of the puncturing means without damaging the walls of the vasculature.
Claims26
1-25. (canceled)
A device for use in a medical procedure within the vasculature of a patient, comprising:
- puncturing means provided at a distal end of the device for puncturing tissue in a supported state, and;
- an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end provided with the puncturing means and a flexible length therebetween, wherein the elongate member is arranged to be advanced through the vasculature in an unsupported state of the puncturing means without damaging the walls of the vasculature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.