Strait Access Technologies Holdings (pty) Limited

Giuseppe Geldenhuys

Peter Paul Zilla

Deon Bezuidenhout

Braden Sydney Clive Van Breda

Kenneth Stuart Park

Edward Charles Mudge

Jeremy Douglas Jarman

Thomas Gerhardt

Jandré De Villiers

Peter Rudi Haw

Fourie Gildenhuys

Carl Nick Van Zyl

Nick Carl Van Zyl

The invention provides an inflatable insertion device capable of being percutaneously introduced into a patient's body. The insertion device comprises an inflatable element having a distal end and a proximal end and which is operable between a collapsed condition and an inflated condition by introducing an inflating fluid therein. An elongate member extends internally of the inflatable element from its distal end. The internal member is capable of being withdrawn towards the proximal end of the inflatable element to result in the distal end of the element being withdrawn towards the proximal end internally of the element. The invention further provides a locating device comprising a catheter having a catheter tube fitted with one or more inflatable insertion devices at a distal end thereof.

Inflatable insertion device for percutaneous insertion

The invention provides a non-occlusive dilation and deployment catheter device which includes a catheter having a distal end configured for entering a patient and a proximal end for manipulating the device. A distender is provided at or near the distal end which is movable between a collapsed configuration which enables introduction and removal thereof to and from an operative site in a vessel or other hollow organ of a patient, and an expanded configuration in which the distender assumes a radially expanded condition and defines a flow path therethrough. The distender includes a substantially tubular, radially expandable frame having a plurality of spaced apertures and at least one inflatable tube threaded through the apertures and shaped to extend in a spiral when inflated. The distender is movable to the expanded configuration by inflating the tube, and movable to the collapsed configuration from the expanded configuration by deflating the tube.

Non-occlusive dilation and deployment catheter device

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Cape Town, South Africa

Giuseppe Geldenhuys