Surgery – Miscellaneous – Methods
Patent
1996-12-26
2000-05-30
Shay, David M.
Surgery
Miscellaneous
Methods
606 2, 606 10, 606 15, 606170, 604 19, 604 20, 604 22, A61B 1736
Patent
active
060679883
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for creating drug-filled pockets within muscle tissue, such as myocardium of the heart for increasing angiogenesis. More particularly, the apparatus has an excising assembly with a dilator tip for penetrating and advancing through the surface and body of a muscle or organ, such as the heart. Preferably, the dilator tip has a low level laser optical fiber emission to ease the passage of the excising assembly and provide thermal damage which also stimulates angiogenesis. More preferably, the dilator tip also disperses a pharmacologically active substance as the apparatus is passed through the tissue and/or creates pockets. The excising assembly is connected to a hand-held control device from which the operator pushes a switch to activate a punching mechanism within the excising assembly. The punching mechanism cuts a discrete piece of muscle tissue and traps it within the excising assembly leaving a pocket in the remaining muscle tissue. The excising assembly may also optionally release a bolus of the pharmacologically active substance into the pocket so created. Most preferably, there is a timing mechanism to measure the contraction of the heart, and the timing mechanism is synchronized with the operator's switch on the hand-held device to ensure that the punching occurs at maximum contraction of systole. A measurement guide determines how much excised tissue is trapped in the reservoir of the excising assembly. At a threshold level of filling, the surgeon will remove the excising assembly from the hand-held control device and open the punching mechanism for release of tissue. More preferably, the threshold level of filling will automatically turn off the switch to the punching mechanism to indicate to the surgeon the need to empty the excising assembly of tissue.
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Castaneda Janet Kaiser
Eclipse Surgical Technologies Inc.
Shay David M.
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