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AssigneeNovoste Corporation
InventorsJames D. Hughett, Robert Michael Webster, Douglas Layland Armstrong, Byron Lee Boylston, Gregg T. Juett, Richard A. Hillstead, Jack C. Griffis, III, Andrew L. Lerohl, Mark Dehdashtian, Marvin A. Guiles
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A transfer device usable in a system for intraluminal treatment of a selected site in a body of a patient in which the transfer device comprises an integral pump for pressurizing and circulating fluid through a fluid path defined by the transfer device and associated catheter. A removable fluid cartridge is provided including a reservoir from which fluid is drawn by the pump and into which fluid is returned after being circulated through the fluid path. The pump may be a peristaltic pump and the fluid cartridge may include an elongated fluid pick-up having an inlet through which fluid is introduced into the transfer device. The fluid pick-up is sized in length so that the inlet is always submerged in the fluid regardless of the orientation of the transfer device.
A transfer device comprising a lumen usable in a system for intraluminal treatment of a selected site in a body of a patient by at least one discrete treating element adapted to be advanced through the lumen in the transfer device into a lumen of a separate catheter by means of pressurized fluid, the transfer device and the catheter defining a closed fluid path for pressurized fluid, the transfer device further comprising an integral pump for pressurizing and circulating the fluid through the fluid path and a removable fluid cartridge including a reservoir from which fluid is drawn by the pump and to which fluid is returned after being circulated through the closed fluid path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.