Surgery – Instruments – Cutting – puncturing or piercing
Patent
1993-11-12
1995-06-13
Burr, Edgar S.
Surgery
Instruments
Cutting, puncturing or piercing
606172, A61B 1732
Patent
active
054238463
ABSTRACT:
The Dottering Auger Catheter system is designed for penetration of tight stenoses or total occlusions (called blockages) as a precursor to balloon angioplasty, atherectomy, or any other vessel opening means that requires an initial passageway. Specifically, the Dottering Auger Catheter system consists of a centering catheter and a Dottering auger catheter which is a catheter that opens a passageway through an arterial blockage by passing its wedge shaped distal end through that blockage causing outward plastic deformation of the plaque; i.e., angioplasty. A centering catheter that surrounds the Dottering Auger Catheter can be used to center the distal end of the auger catheter just proximal to the blockage. The purpose of the auger type of Dottering catheter is to penetrate through the blockage by means of a self-tapping screw at the catheter's distal end. Once the first thread of the screw is pushed into the blockage, rotation of the catheter resulting from turning a handle at the catheter's proximal end will cause the screw to pull itself through the blockage while a push force on the handle is also applied. Once the auger has Dottered a passageway through the blockage, the auger catheter is removed and replaced with a guide wire. Once the guide wire is in place through the newly opened passageway, the centering catheter is removed and conventional balloon angioplasty or atherectomy can be performed to further enlarge the hole through the blockage thus restoring adequate blood flow.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4308354 (1994-05-01), Zacca et al.
patent: 5192291 (1993-03-01), Pannek
patent: 5318576 (1994-06-01), Plassche
Burr Edgar S.
Cathco, Inc.
Nguyen Anthony H.
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