Tissue separation cannula with dissection probe and method

Details Tissue separation cannula with dissection probe and method Tissue separation cannula with dissection probe and method

1997-11-19

1999-02-23

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Blunt dissectors

606192, 606194, 606207, 128898, A61B 1700

Patent

active

058738894

ABSTRACT:
A cannula includes a tubular body having a proximal end and distal blunt end, at least one lumen extending the length of the body, an endoscope having a lighted, viewing end disposed in the lumen near the distal end of the body, and a transparent, tissue-separating tip substantially covering the distal end of the body. The tissue-separating tip is slightly blunted to inhibit avulsion of tissue and lateral vessels along the dissected cavity formed thereby. Endoscopic viewing through the tip is enhanced by tapering the inner walls thereof to a cusp adjacent the blunt tip in order to reduce visual distortion. Alternatively, a cannula includes a dissection probe and a removable or deflectable tip for exposing the probe and endoscope to facilitate viewing and the dissection of connective tissue and lateral vessels along the dissected cavity. Methods of using such cannulas produce an elongated cavity along the course of a blood vessel for subsequent harvesting or other treatment of the isolated blood vessel. The dissection probe includes a partial ring that is substantially coaxially aligned with the generally cylindrical body of the cannula for passing along the vessel and past lateral branching vessels, and that is manipulatable at the distal end of the cannula in view of the endoscope which visualizes through the transparent tip. Where the vessel is an artery, an initial incision is made, for example, above the superior epigastric artery and the overlying tissue is bluntly dissected down to the superior epigastric artery to establish an initial portion of an elongated working cavity of bluntly-dissected tissue. Lateral arterial branches are doubly clipped or otherwise doubly occluded, and then severed to isolate the artery for use in revascularizing the coronary artery, for example, by transection of the superior epigastric or internal mammary artery and attachment of the transected end to the coronary artery downstream of a significant stenotic occlusion.

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