Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1994-07-08
1996-11-19
Green, Randall L.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
607 15, 600 16, 128702, 128705, A61M 3100
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active
055757669
ABSTRACT:
A process for the treatment of atrial arrhythmia by use of ablation and/or mapping procedures comprising ablating discrete ablation tracks within the left and right atrium of the heart by use of precurved left and right atrium guiding introducers. Also disclosed are shapes for the guiding introducers to be used for the ablation and/or mapping of the discrete tracks within the left and right atrium.
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Ockuly John
Swartz John F.
Cox Scott R.
Daig Corporation
Green Randall L.
Smith Chalin
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