Surgery – Instruments – Blood vessel – duct or teat cutter – scrapper or abrader
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-20
2007-02-20
Truong, Kevin T. (Department: 3734)
Surgery
Instruments
Blood vessel, duct or teat cutter, scrapper or abrader
Reexamination Certificate
active
10370231
ABSTRACT:
Methods for bypassing total or near-total obstructions in arteries or other anatomical conduits. A guidewire is advanced through the lumen of the artery or anatomical conduit upstream of the obstruction and past the obstruction. In navigating past the obstruction, this guidewire may advance through tissue that is located within the wall of the artery or anatomical conduit and/or through tissue that is located outside of the wall of the artery or anatomical conduit. After this guidewire has been advanced past the obstruction, a penetrating catheter that is equipped with an orientation element is advanced over that guidewire. The orientation element is then used to aim a penetrator back into the lumen of the obstructed artery or conduit, downstream of the obstruction. The penetrator is then advanced into the lumen of the obstructed artery or conduit, downstream of the obstruction, and a final guidewire is advanced through the penetrator and into the lumen of the artery or conduit downstream of the obstruction. The catheter (and the guidewire that was initially used to pass the obstruction) may then be removed, leaving the final guidewire in place. A balloon or other tract enlarging device may be used to dilate or otherwise enlarge the bypass tract through which the final guidewire extends. Also, a covered or uncovered stent may be placed within the tract to facilitate flow from the lumen of the artery or anatomical conduit upstream of the obstruction, through the newly created bypass tract and back into the lumen of the artery or anatomical conduit downstream of the obstruction.
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Truong Kevin T.
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