Surgery – Instruments – Electrical application
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-08-19
Sykes, Angela D.
Surgery
Instruments
Electrical application
606 40, 606 42, 606159, 606170, A61B 1732
Patent
active
056582820
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for in situ saphenous vein bypass includes an operating catheter which includes an optical fiber and an electrode, and a control catheter which includes a valvulotome. The operating catheter and control catheter are locked together and advanced through an incision in the leg. The catheters are closely spaced from each other, on opposite sides of a valve to be disrupted. Then, the valvulotome is manipulated to disrupt the valve, the electrode is manipulated to stanch blood flow from the valve and to close off side branches, and both procedures are viewed by means of the optical fiber. The valves of the saphenous vein are thusly disrupted in sequence, and the side branches to the saphenous vein closed off, to thereby modify the saphenous vein in situ for arterial use. In alternate embodiments, the electrode is used with delivery catheters to stop blood flow through a side branch or varicose vein. The electrode includes an embedded temperature sensor for sensing electrode temperature.
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Acosta George M.
Brustad John R.
Daw Derek J.
Endovascular, Inc.
Peffley Michael
Rogitz John L.
Sykes Angela D.
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