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Intravascular method and system for treating arrhythmia
Assignee: Sichuan Jinjiang Electronic Science and Technology Co Ltd
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Filing: 1994-01-27
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Granted: 1997-07-08
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Expires: 2014-01-27
Abstract
Abstract A method and system for treating a patient's heart exhibiting arrhythmia by first detecting electrical activity within the patient's heart to determine the location of the arrhythmogenic site or conductive pathway causing the arrhythmia and then creating an infarct within the region of the patient's heart where the arrhythmogenic site or the conductive pathway causing the arrhythmia is located by delivering an occluding element to a coronary artery which delivers oxygenated blood to said region of the patient's heart. In one presently preferred embodiment the occluding element is a flaccid or limp coil which when disposed in a coronary arterial passageway forms a randomly shaped, intertwined mass which quickly forms thrombus within the coronary artery to block the passage of oxygenated blood therethrough. The flaccid coil may be delivered through an inner lumen of a catheter which has a distal portion extending within the coronary artery.
Inventors
- 👤 Ruey Sung
- 👤 Gene Samson
Bibliographic Details
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CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B5/00; A61B5/24; A61B5/25; A61B5/279; A61B5/28; A61B5/283; A61B5/287; A61B17/00; A61B17/12; A61B17/12022; A61B17/12099; A61B17/12109; A61B17/12131; A61B17/1214; A61B17/12145; A61B17/1215; A61B17/12163; A61B17/12168; A61B17/12172; A61B17/22; A61B17/22004; A61B17/22012; A61B18/00; A61B18/04; A61B18/12; A61B18/14; A61B2017/00017; A61B2017/00022; A61B2017/00026; A61B17/00234; A61B2017/00238; A61B2017/00243; A61B2017/1205; A61B2017/12054; A61B2017/12063; A61B2562/00; A61B2562/02; A61B2562/0209; A61B2562/0215; A61B2562/04; A61B2562/043
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
104 words
A method for locating and treating tissue of a patient's heart exhibiting arrhythmia, comprising: a) locating tissue within the patient's heart which is causing or is involved with the arrhythmia by detecting electrical activity by means of at least one intravascular device disposed within a coronary artery or cardiac vein of the patient; b) determining which coronary artery feeds oxygenated blood to the located tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia; and c) delivering an occluding element to the coronary artery to occlude the artery blocking blood flow to the located tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia and to thereby terminate the arrhythmia.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
104 words
A method for locating and treating tissue of a patient's heart exhibiting arrhythmia, comprising: a) locating tissue within the patient's heart which is causing or is involved with the arrhythmia by detecting electrical activity by means of at least one intravascular device disposed within a coronary artery or cardiac vein of the patient; b) determining which coronary artery feeds oxygenated blood to the located tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia; and c) delivering an occluding element to the coronary artery to occlude the artery blocking blood flow to the located tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia and to thereby terminate the arrhythmia.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the artery is occluded at least in part by forming thrombus on the occluding element delivered therein.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the occluding element permanently occludes the artery.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
54 words
The method of claim 1 including the step of locating the tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia by advancing an elongated intravascular device having a plurality of electrodes on a distal portion thereof into a coronary artery or a cardiac vein and detecting electrical activity from tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the occluding element is a flaccid helically wound wire coil.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
58 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the occluding element is releasably secured to a distal end of a guidewire, the guidewire is advanced through the patient's coronary artery until the releasably secured occluding element is positioned at the desired location within the coronary artery and the occluding element is released to occlude the artery at the desired location.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
86 words
The method of claim 1 wherein a catheter having proximal and distal ends and an inner lumen extending therein to a port in the distal end thereof is advanced within the patient's vasculature until the distal end of the catheter is at the desired location in the coronary artery and the occluding element is advanced through the inner lumen of the catheter until it extends out the port in the distal end of the catheter into the coronary artery where the occluding member occludes the artery.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
52 words
The method of claim 7 wherein the catheter has a plurality of sensing electrodes on a distal portion thereof and the tissue causing the arrhythmia is located by detecting electrical activity at a plurality of locations by means of the plurality of the sensing electrodes on a distal portion of the catheter.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 8 wherein the electrical activity is detected in a bipolar mode.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
164 words
A method for locating and treating tissue of a patient's heart exhibiting arrhythmia, comprising: a) locating tissue of the patient's heart which causes or is involved with the arrhythmia by means of at least one intravascular device disposed within a coronary artery or cardiac vein of the patient; b) determining which coronary artery or branch thereof feeds the tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia; c) providing an intravascular catheter having proximal and distal ends and an inner lumen extending therein to a discharge port in the distal end; d) advancing the intravascular catheter into the patient's coronary artery or branch thereof which feeds oxygenated blood to the tissue of the patient's heart which causes or is involved with the arrhythmia; and e) directing an occluding element through the inner lumen of the intravascular catheter and depositing it in the coronary artery or branch thereof to block blood flow to the tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia and to thereby terminate the arrhythmia.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
164 words
A method for locating and treating tissue of a patient's heart exhibiting arrhythmia, comprising: a) locating tissue of the patient's heart which causes or is involved with the arrhythmia by means of at least one intravascular device disposed within a coronary artery or cardiac vein of the patient; b) determining which coronary artery or branch thereof feeds the tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia; c) providing an intravascular catheter having proximal and distal ends and an inner lumen extending therein to a discharge port in the distal end; d) advancing the intravascular catheter into the patient's coronary artery or branch thereof which feeds oxygenated blood to the tissue of the patient's heart which causes or is involved with the arrhythmia; and e) directing an occluding element through the inner lumen of the intravascular catheter and depositing it in the coronary artery or branch thereof to block blood flow to the tissue causing or involved with the arrhythmia and to thereby terminate the arrhythmia.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of claim 10 wherein the occluding element introduced into the arterial passageway is a flaccid coil which forms a randomly shaped, intertwined mass when introduced into the arterial passageway.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the flaccid coil is hydraulically delivered through the inner lumen of the catheter into the arterial passageway.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the helically wound wire coil is releaseably secured to a distal end of a guidewire which is advanced through the inner lumen of the catheter.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
17 words
The method of claim 11 wherein thrombus forms on the flaccid coil which occludes the coronary artery.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
75 words
The method of claim 11 wherein the region of the patient's heart causing the arrhythmia is determined by advancing at least one intravascular sensing device having a plurality of sensing electrodes on a distal section thereof within a coronary artery or a cardiac vein of the patient's heart and sensing electrical activity by means of sensing electrodes on the distal section of the intravascular sensing device from within the coronary artery or the cardiac vein.
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