Adjustable catheter device

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1993-05-26

1994-08-30

Rosenbaum, C. Fred

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

604 53, 604102, 606194, A61M 2900

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053423062

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for performing a medical treatment at a selected location of a physiologic passage by: introducing the apparatus into the passage so that a first location on the catheter is opposite the selected location of the passage; establishing a selected spacing between first and second balloons carried by the apparatus and inflating the first and second balloons to establish a treatment region which is bounded by the balloons, the catheter and the passage; periodically introducing a treatment chemical into the treatment region and withdrawing fluid from the treatment region via means for permitting flow and a first lumen of the apparatus; and during the course of the step of periodically introducing, varying the spacing between the first and second balloons.

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