Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Balloon catheter with flexible electrode assemblies
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Application No.: US14747702Application Date: 2015-06-23
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Publication No.: US09872717B2Publication Date: 2018-01-23
- Inventor: Robert F. Bencini , Frank Ingle , Josef V. Koblish , Rebecca Tin , James Mazzone , Byron Chun , David Lawrence
- Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
- Applicant Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Main IPC: A61B18/02
- IPC: A61B18/02 ; A61B5/042 ; A61B18/00

Abstract:
In some implementations, a method of ablating body tissue includes (a) locating an inflatable balloon portion of a cryotherapy balloon catheter at a treatment site internal to a patient's body, and inflating the inflatable balloon portion; (b) employing electrodes that are disposed on an expandable surface of the inflatable balloon portion to electrically characterize body tissue at the treatment site; (c) ablating the body tissue by supplying a cryotherapy agent to the inflatable balloon portion to cool the body tissue to a therapeutic temperature; (d) employing the electrodes to determine whether the ablating caused desired electrical changes in the body tissue; and (e) repeating (c) and (d) when it is determined that the ablating did not cause the desired electrical changes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150282859A1 BALLOON CATHETER WITH FLEXIBLE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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