Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1996-10-21
2000-02-29
Shay, David M.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 15, 606 10, 600508, A61N 506
Patent
active
060303778
ABSTRACT:
A system and method of marking percutaneous transmyocardial revascularization channels in a human heart includes inserting a catheter system into the left ventricle of a heart, applying tissue ablative energy through the catheter to create a channel into the heart wall, and introducing an imaging medium to the heart wall proximate the channel for marking the position of that channel for imaging.
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Linhares Stephen J.
Negus Charles Christopher
Rudko Robert I.
Woodruff Eileen A.
Colandreo Brian J.
PLC Medical Systems, Inc.
Shay David M.
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