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US 8,709,034 B2Granted
Methods and devices for diagnosing, monitoring, or treating medical conditions through an opening through an airway wall
AssigneeBroncus Medical Inc.
InventorsThomas M. Keast, Michael D. Laufer, Henky Wibowo, Cary Cole, Gary S. Kaplan, Edmund J. Roschak
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Abstract
Methods and devices for diagnosing, monitoring, and/or treating tissue through an opening or port through an airway wall are provided herein.
Claims26
A method of accessing target tissue in a lung, the method comprising:
- locating a target site on an airway wall, wherein the target site is in a location that allows for creation of an opening leading to the target tissue and for advancement of an elongate instrument through the opening to the target tissue;
- creating an opening through the airway wall at the target site with a hole-making instrument, the opening leading to the target tissue;
- advancing the elongate instrument through the opening created in the airway wall;
- providing an atraumatic tipped dissector, the dissector positioned within the elongate instrument;
- tunneling from the opening in the airway wall to the target tissue with the elongate instrument and the dissector positioned therein;
- removing the dissector from the elongate instrument such that the elongate instrument provides access to the target tissue for performing monitoring, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures through the elongate instrument;
- and
- performing a procedure on the target tissue with a procedure instrument through the previously positioned elongate instrument leading to the target tissue.
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A method of accessing target tissue in a lung, the method comprising:
- advancing a flexible elongate instrument to a target site in an airway of the lung;
- creating an opening through the airway wall at the target site with a hole-making instrument;
- advancing the elongate instrument through the opening;
- urging the elongate instrument and a dissector positioned within the elongate instrument forward through lung tissue, thereby creating a tunnel from the opening in the airway wall to the target tissue;
- removing the dissector from the elongate instrument such that the elongate instrument provides access to the target tissue for performing monitoring, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures through the elongate instrument;
- and
- performing a procedure on the target tissue with a procedure instrument through the previously positioned elongate instrument leading to the target tissue.
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A method of accessing target tissue in a lung, the method comprising:
- selecting a target site in an airway of the lung wherein the target site is in a location that allows for creation of an opening through the airway wall, the opening leading to the target tissue, and wherein the target site is in a location that allows for advancement of a flexible elongate instrument through the opening to the target tissue along a substantially straight path;
- advancing the elongate instrument to a target site in an airway of the lung;
- creating an opening through the airway wall at the target site with a hole-making instrument;
- advancing the elongate instrument through the opening created in the airway wall;
- urging the elongate instrument and a dissector positioned within the elongate instrument forward through lung tissue, thereby creating a tunnel from the opening in the airway wall to the target tissue;
- removing the dissector from the elongate instrument such that the elongate instrument provides access to the target tissue for performing monitoring, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures;
- and
- performing a procedure on the target tissue with a procedure instrument through the previously positioned elongate instrument leading to the target tissue.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.