Tissue excision, cutting, and removal systems and methods
AssigneeTransmural Systems LLC
InventorsNasser Rafiee, Stuart Macdonald, Rany Busold, Alexis Balcom, Morgan House
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Abstract
The disclosure provides various embodiments of catheters having articulable ends that can be used for various procedures. Embodiments of methods are also provided that can be performed with catheters in accordance with the present disclosure.
Claims7
A catheter including a distal end, the distal end including:
- a collapsible basket mounted thereon;
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- a deployable snare, wherein a user can use the basket to at least partially surround an object attached to a tissue mass, collapse the basket around the object, and then sever the tissue mass by cutting through the tissue mass with the snare.
A catheter including an outer tubular member with at least one sharpened distal protrusion, and an inner rod including a tissue grasper, wherein the tissue grasper can be advanced distally out of a distal end of the tubular member to grasp tissue, and further wherein the at least one sharpened distal tip can be used to cut through tissue by rotating the outer tubular member about a central axis of the outer tubular member.
A method of using any device herein to remove a mitral clip, a cyst, or other tissue structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.