Abstract:
Provided is an ablation device including a narrow insertion section insertable into a body, a distal end section provided at a distal end of the insertion section and having a narrow cauterizing surface that is formed in a longitudinal direction in one area in a circumferential direction and that releases energy to biological tissue, and a radiopaque marking section provided at the distal end section and substantially parallel to the cauterizing surface. The marking section has a three-dimensional shape such that projection shapes obtained when projected from different sides in a radial direction of the distal end section are different from each other.
Abstract:
An atrial-appendage ligation surgical tool that includes a pressing part and a shaft, in which the pressing part is guided into a pericardium via a sheath penetrating through a pericardial membrane, and includes contact portions that press the vicinity of a base of an atrial appendage and have a circular cross-sectional shape and round distal ends, and in which the shaft is in an inserted state in the sheath, supports the pressing part at a distal end, and has a rigidity that enables transmission of a pressing force acting in the longitudinal direction, applied from the proximal end side of the sheath.
Abstract:
An atrial appendage ligation surgical tool that includes: a tubular loop shaft having an inner hole that penetrates therethrough in a longitudinal direction; and a ligature loop that is in an inserted state in the inner hole of the loop shaft and formed of a wire that forms a loop closed with a knot at a distal end of the loop shaft, the loop being contractible in size by being pulled from a proximal end of the loop shaft. The ligature loop is given a tendency to form a flat ring-shaped loop having a size an atrial appendage is insertable when in a free state, and the knot is placed near an end of the loop in a long axis direction thereof.
Abstract:
To more reliably secure the space in the pericardial cavity to comply with the change in viewing area range of an endoscope, an endoscope adaptor is attached to an endoscope having a bending portion near a distal end, the endoscope adaptor including a projecting portion that projects from a position on a proximal end side of the bending portion so as to project in one part in a circumferential direction of the endoscope and in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the endoscope with the bending portion in an un-bent state; and a guide through hole, which is formed in the projecting portion and penetrates through the projecting portion in the projecting direction and through which a long thin guide member for guiding the endoscope to a desired observation site can pass in the projecting direction.
Abstract:
Provided is an endoscope including an inserted portion that is inserted into a body, an observation optical system that is provided at a distal-end portion of the inserted portion and that acquires an image of the heart, and a supporting expansion portion that makes the heart support the distal-end portion of the inserted portion and that is provided with a basal-end-portion balloon, which is provided closer to a base-end portion than the distal-end portion of the inserted portion is, and a distal-end-portion balloon, which is provided so as to overhang forward from the distal-end portion of the inserted portion, wherein the base-end-portion balloon is disposed on the opposite side from the distal-end-portion balloon, with the inserted portion interposed therebetween.
Abstract:
An apparatus including a detecting unit that detects information indicating a state of an organism from the organism or an organism specimen extracted from the organism and outputs the detected information as a current, a current-voltage conversion circuit that converts the current output from the detecting unit into a voltage, a double-integration-type A/D conversion circuit having an integration capacitor that is charged based on a voltage output from the current-voltage conversion circuit and is thereafter discharged, and a counter that measures a charge time during which the integration capacitor is charged and a discharge time during which the integration capacitor is discharged, the A/D conversion circuit converting into digital quantities the charge time and the discharge time measured by the counter, and outputting the digital quantities, and an information processing unit that calculates a state quantity of the organism based on the digital quantities output from the A/D conversion circuit.
Abstract:
A pericardial-cavity observing method including: a step of inserting an endoscope sheath and an endoscope into a space between the heart and the pericardium; a step of disposing a protruding portion closer to the pericardium than an optical member is so that an angle that is formed between a centerline that passes through a center of the protruding portion and a center of the optical member and a tangent of the pericardium that passes through a foot of a perpendicular line drawn, from the center of the optical member of the endoscope, to the pericardium sagging down from the protruding portion toward the heart becomes greater than an angle formed between the centerline and an external common tangent of the protruding portion and the optical member; and a step of observing the heart by means of the endoscope.
Abstract:
An endoscope sheath includes: a sheath body through which an endoscope channel is formed; a projecting portion extending in the longitudinal direction from the distal end of the sheath body and provided at a portion in the circumferential direction, on the radially outer side the endoscope channel; a nozzle from which the cleaning fluid is jetted radially inward of the sheath body and that is provided at the distal end portion of the projecting portion; and a fluid channel through which the cleaning fluid is supplied to the nozzle. At the distal end of the sheath body, the side opposite the nozzle with the endoscope channel therebetween in the radial direction is open.
Abstract:
Provided is an endoscope sheath including an elongated body having flexibility, the body having a first lumen through which an endoscope passes in a longitudinal direction of the body and a second lumen through which a guide wire passes in the longitudinal direction. A direction in which the second lumen opens at the distal end of the body gradually diverges from a direction in which the first lumen opens at the distal end, in a forward direction from the distal end.
Abstract:
An atrial-appendage ligation treatment tool including: a shaft provided with a lumen having, at a distal end thereof, an opening having an opening diameter that allows passage of a thread of a ligation loop formed in a ring shape, which can be tightened, by connecting an end of the thread at an intermediate position by means of a knot and that does not allow passage of the knot; and a cutting part that is provided at a distal end of the shaft and that cuts, at an inner side of the opening and in the vicinity of the opening, the thread passing through the lumen.