Hybrid catheter for vascular intervention
AssigneeEximo Medical Ltd.
InventorsIlan Ben Oren, Yifat Ben Oren Tamir
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Abstract
A catheter for debulking of an undesired deposit from an inner surface of at least one of a blood vessel wall and a stent located in a blood vessel, the catheter having a tip section comprising: circumferentially-directed laser optics; and a circular-action cutter, wherein said circumferentially-directed laser optics is configured to transmit laser radiation for modifying an area of the undesired deposit thereby preparing said area for penetration of said cutter, wherein said cutter is configured to cut through said modified area and thereby debulk at least a part of the undesired deposit. In addition, a catheter for pacemaker and ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) lead extraction is disclosed.
Claims21
1-93. (canceled)
A catheter for removing an undesired tissue from an inner wall of a body cavity, said catheter having a tip section comprising:
- a wall forming a lumen, wherein a distal extremity of said wall form an end opening;
- a plurality of optical fibers operatively coupled to a laser and configured to transmit laser radiation from said distal extremity of said tip section;
- a drug delivering element configured to administer a drug to the undesired tissue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.