Steerable catheter

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1997-04-04

1999-03-02

McDermott, Corrine

Surgery

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

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

604280, 604281, A61M 3700

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058763732

ABSTRACT:
An elongated steerable catheter for placement within a heart chamber, organ aperture or other body opening and having at least one center tube with hollow passageway for guiding a laser delivery means or other functional device to selected surfaces of a heart chamber, organ aperture or other body cavity for laser or other treatment thereon, particularly adapted for laser-assisted percutaneous transmyocardial revascularization (TMR), is disclosed herein. The steerable catheter has a handle portion at its proximal end and a controllably deflectable end portion at its distal end. The elongated center tube has a distal end, in the region where a curvature is to be formed, and a shim anchor sleeve is slidably disposed over the center tube. The shim anchor sleeve is attached to the inside wall of the outer jacket and coupled to the distal end of the center tube with a bendable shim member which extends between the distal tip of the steerable catheter and the sleeve over the center tube. Opposite the shim is a guide for a pull cable, the pull cable attached to the distal end of the steerable catheter and extending through the guide to the handle. Thus, the shim is maintained radially opposite the pull cable with the center tube in between. An outer jacket has, in a preferred embodiment, distinct sections of different stiffness or durometer. A distal, more flexible portion is coupled to a proximal, stiffer portion. The shim anchor sleeve is positioned at or near the junction of two portions of the outer jacket. Thus, the center tube moves freely through the shim anchor sleeve. Adjacent the handle, the outer jacket terminates at the catheter base. The pull cable extends past the catheter base, through a deflection housing tube, and terminates in a cable stop. Rotation of a deflection knob threadably mounted onto the deflection housing tube will cause the pull cable to be pulled backward, or the outer jacket to be pushed forward, relative to each other, thereby inducing deflection of the distal end of the steerable catheter.

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