Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-09
2011-08-09
Lucchesi, Nicholas D (Department: 3763)
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
C604S164020, C604S164030, C604S166010, C604S167010, C604S170030, C604S524000, C604S164010, C604S095040
Reexamination Certificate
active
07993303
ABSTRACT:
A support catheter that can puncture a heart septum with a guidewire without buckling and that can access difficult to reach arteries such as carotid or renal arteries from the aorta under difficult circumstances is provided. The support catheter comprises a catheter body having a proximal end, a distal end, and an interior wall surface defining a first lumen extending from the proximal end toward the distal end. A second lumen is disposed between the interior wall surface and an outer surface of the catheter body. A plurality of stiffening members is disposed around the second lumen, the plurality of stiffening members being engageable to selectively stiffen the catheter body. In another configuration, the catheter further comprises a second plurality of stiffening members disposed between the first lumen and the second lumen.
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U.S. A
Clark Ian J.
Coffey Lorcan
Gianotti Marc
Newhauser Richard
Oepen Randolf Von
Abbott Laboratories
Feuchtwang Jonathan D.
Lucchesi Nicholas D
Medway Scott
Workman Nydegger
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