Catheters comprising bending transducers and methods for their u

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1997-06-02

1999-08-03

Coggins, Wynn Wood

Surgery

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

With means for cutting, scarifying, or vibrating tissue

A61B 1720

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059318058

ABSTRACT:
A catheter comprises a catheter body having a bending plate transducer disposed at or near its distal end. The bending plate transducer is typically a unimorph, bimorph, or other conventional vibratory transducer capable of imparting pressure waves in a direction generally normal to the plane of the transducer. The bending plate transducers may be disposed at a distal end of the catheter body, for example, as a cantilever beam, or may alternately be disposed within the catheter body. The catheters may further comprise lumens for drug delivery, balloons for encircling the transducer structures, or the like. The catheters are useful in a variety of lumenal therapeutic procedures, including drug delivery, stenotic disruption within blood vessel, and the like.

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