Embolectomy device
AssigneesStryker Corporation, Stryker NV Operations Limited
InventorsKamal Ramzipoor, Ajitkumar B. Nair, Riten Parikh, Andrew Huffmaster, Mehran Bashiri, Pete Phong Pham
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Abstract
An embodiment is a catheter comprising a first elongate shaft having a proximal end, a distal end and a first lumen therethrough, a wire having a proximal end and a distal end at least partially disposed in the first elongate shaft, the distal end extending distally from the first elongate shaft, and a motion control apparatus connected to the proximal end of the wire, further comprising a device attached to the distal end of the wire for changing the shape of an embolus, wherein the device is configured to change the shape of the embolus to unclog a distal catheter lumen.
Claims19
An embolus treatment catheter, comprising:
- an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the shaft comprising first and second, non-coaxial elongate lumens extending therethrough, the lumens having open distal ends;
- a wire at least partially disposed in the first elongate lumen, the wire having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end of the wire extending distally from the first elongate lumen;
- a vacuum source fluidly connected to the second elongate lumen at the proximal end of the elongate shaft;
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- a motion control apparatus connected to the proximal end of the wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.