TISSUE PUNCTURE SYSTEM WITH STEERABLE MICROCATHETER AND ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE GUIDEWIRE

    公开(公告)号:EP4458292A2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-06

    申请号:EP24201859.6

    申请日:2022-05-19

    发明人: HIGHSMITH, Debby

    IPC分类号: A61B17/34

    摘要: A microcatheter with a guidewire therein can be steered to target tissue, then the target tissue can be punctured with the guidewire to create a transseptal puncture. The microcatheter can have a diameter substantially smaller than known sheaths which are typically used to guide a needle to a target puncture site in known transseptal puncture treatments. The guidewire can have an atraumatic, electrically conductive distal end that can be electrically energized to puncture the target tissue. Once the guide wire is across, ancillary devices such as a dilator and sheath can be delivered over the guide wire across the transseptal puncture. The microcatheter can include one or more location sensors. A navigation module can use the electrically conductive distal end as a reference electrode to the location sensor(s) of the microcatheter.

    MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ACQUISITION OF BIPOLAR SIGNALS FROM A CATHETER

    公开(公告)号:EP4427666A2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-11

    申请号:EP24191414.2

    申请日:2020-12-11

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00

    摘要: Medical apparatus includes a probe with a basket assembly at its distal end, including a plurality of resilient spines with multiple electrodes arrayed along a length of each of the spines. Processing circuitry is configured to acquire a first bipolar electrical signal from the tissue between first and second electrodes at first and second locations along a first spine of the basket assembly, and to acquire a second bipolar electrical signal from the tissue between the first electrode and a third electrode in a third location on a second spine of the basket assembly, and to interpolate, based on the first and second bipolar electrical signals, a vectorial electrical property of the tissue along an axis that passes through the first location and between the second and third locations.