Circumferential ablation device assembly
    1.
    发明授权
    Circumferential ablation device assembly 有权
    周围消融装置组装

    公开(公告)号:US06245064B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-06-12

    申请号:US09481089

    申请日:2000-01-11

    IPC分类号: A61B1804

    摘要: This invention is a circumferential ablation device assembly which is adapted to forming a circumferential conduction block in a pulmonary vein. The assembly includes a circumferential ablation element which is adapted to ablate a circumferential region of tissue along a pulmonary vein wall which circumscribes the pulmonary vein lumen, thereby transecting the electrical conductivity of the pulmonary vein against conduction along its longitudinal axis and into the left atrium. The circumferential ablation element includes an expandable member with a working length that is adjustable from a radially collapsed position to a radially expanded position. An equatorial band circumscribes the outer surface of the working length and is adapted to ablate tissue adjacent thereto when actuated by an ablation actuator. The equatorial band has a length relative to the longitudinal axis of the expandable member that is narrow relative to the working length, and is also substantially shorter than its circumference when the working length is in the radially expanded position. A pattern of insulators may be included over an ablation element which otherwise spans the working length in order to form the equatorial band described. The expandable member is also adapted to conform to the pulmonary vein in the region of its ostium, such as by providing a great deal of radial compliance or by providing a taper along the working length which has a distally reducing outer diameter. A linear ablation element is provided adjacent to the circumferential ablation element in a combination assembly which is adapted for use in a less-invasive “maze”-type procedure in the region of the pulmonary vein ostia in the left ventricle.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是适于在肺静脉中形成圆周传导阻滞的周缘消融装置组件。 该组件包括圆周消融元件,其适于沿着围绕肺静脉管腔的肺静脉壁消融组织的周缘区域,从而横切肺静脉的导电性,以抵抗沿着其纵向轴线并进入左心房的传导。 周向消融元件包括可膨胀构件,其具有可从径向收缩位置到径向扩张位置的可调节的工作长度。 赤道带包围工作长度的外表面,并且适于在由消融致动器致动时消融邻近的组织。 赤道带相对于可扩展构件的纵向轴线具有相对于工作长度窄的长度,并且当工作长度处于径向扩张位置时也比其圆周短得多。 绝缘体的图案可以包括在消融元件上,否则将跨越工作长度以形成所描述的赤道带。 可膨胀构件还适于在其口部的区域中符合肺静脉,例如通过提供大量径向顺应性或通过沿具有远端减小外径的工作长度提供锥形。 在组合组件中邻近周缘消融元件提供线性消融元件,该组合组件适用于在左心室的肺静脉口区域中的侵入性较小的“迷宫”型手术。

    Circumferential ablation device assembly
    3.
    发明授权
    Circumferential ablation device assembly 有权
    周围消融装置组装

    公开(公告)号:US06872205B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-29

    申请号:US10133523

    申请日:2002-04-25

    摘要: This invention is a circumferential ablation device assembly which is adapted to forming a circumferential conduction block in a pulmonary vein. The assembly includes a circumferential ablation element which is adapted to ablate a circumferential region of tissue along a pulmonary vein wall which circumscribes the pulmonary vein lumen, thereby transecting the electrical conductivity of the pulmonary vein against conduction along its longitudinal axis and into the left atrium. The circumferential ablation element includes an expandable member with a working length that is adjustable from a radially collapsed position to a radially expanded position. An equatorial band circumscribes the outer surface of the working length and is adapted to ablate tissue adjacent thereto when actuated by an ablation actuator. The equatorial band has a length relative to the longitudinal axis of the expandable member that is narrow relative to the working length, and is also substantially shorter than its circumference when the working length is in the radially expanded position. A pattern of insulators may be included over an ablation element which otherwise spans the working length in order to form the equatorial band described. The expandable member is also adapted to conform to the pulmonary vein in the region of its ostium, such as by providing a great deal of radial compliance or by providing a taper along the working length which has a distally reducing outer diameter. A linear ablation element is provided adjacent to the circumferential ablation element in a combination assembly which is adapted for use in a less-invasive “maze”-type procedure in the region of the pulmonary vein ostia in the left ventricle.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是适于在肺静脉中形成圆周传导阻滞的周缘消融装置组件。 该组件包括圆周消融元件,其适于沿着围绕肺静脉管腔的肺静脉壁消融组织的周缘区域,从而横切肺静脉的导电性,以抵抗沿着其纵向轴线并进入左心房的传导。 周向消融元件包括可膨胀构件,其具有可从径向收缩位置到径向扩张位置的可调节的工作长度。 赤道带包围工作长度的外表面,并且适于在由消融致动器致动时消融邻近的组织。 赤道带相对于可扩展构件的纵向轴线具有相对于工作长度窄的长度,并且当工作长度处于径向扩张位置时也比其圆周短得多。 绝缘体的图案可以包括在消融元件上,否则将跨越工作长度以形成所描述的赤道带。 可膨胀构件还适于在其口部的区域中符合肺静脉,例如通过提供大量径向顺应性或通过沿具有远端减小外径的工作长度提供锥形。 在组合组件中邻近周缘消融元件提供线性消融元件,该组合组件适用于在左心室的肺静脉口区域中的侵入性较小的“迷宫”型手术。

    Circumferential ablation device assembly

    公开(公告)号:US06383151B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-07

    申请号:US09659477

    申请日:2000-09-11

    IPC分类号: A61B100

    摘要: This invention is a circumferential ablation device assembly which is adapted to forming a circumferential conduction block in a pulmonary vein. The assembly includes a circumferential ablation element which is adapted to ablate a circumferential region of tissue along a pulmonary vein wall which circumscribes the pulmonary vein lumen, thereby transecting the electrical conductivity of the pulmonary vein against conduction along its longitudinal axis and into the left atrium. The circumferential ablation element includes an expandable member with a working length that is adjustable from a radially collapsed position to a radially expanded position. An equatorial band circumscribes the outer surface of the working length and is adapted to ablate tissue adjacent thereto when actuated by an ablation actuator. The equatorial band has a length relative to the longitudinal axis of the expandable member that is narrow relative to the working length, and is also substantially shorter than its circumference when the working length is in the radially expanded position. A pattern of insulators may be included over an ablation element which otherwise spans the working length in order to form the equatorial band described. The expandable member is also adapted to conform to the pulmonary vein in the region of its ostium, such as by providing a great deal of radial compliance or by providing a taper along the working length which has a distally reducing outer diameter. A linear ablation element is provided adjacent to the circumferential ablation element in a combination assembly which is adapted for use in a less-invasive “maze”-type procedure in the region of the pulmonary vein ostia in the left ventricle. A cylindrical ultrasound transducer is provided on an inner member within the balloon and forms the circumferential ablation member by emitting a radial ultrasound signal which is circumferential to the transducer and highly collimated to the transducer's length. The circumferential ultrasound signal sonically couples to the balloon's outer skin to form the circumferential ablation element that is adapted to ablate a circumferential path of tissue engaged to the balloon.