Biosense Webster (israel) Ltd.

Paul Suarez

Pieter Emmelius Van Niekerk

Meir Bar-Tal

Shubhayu Basu

Babak Ebrahimi

Cesar Fuentes-Ortega

Dustin R Tobey

Jamie Lynn Malinaric

Jamie Lynn Henriquez

Juan Rodriguez Soto

Mohammad Abbas

Tara Gomez-hampton

Elijah Li

John Foley

Simon Lopez

A guiding sheath has a hemostatic valve and a central lumen into which a diagnostic or treatment catheter can be introduced and guided into a patient. The hemostatic valve also includes an electrically conducting element or proximity sensing element on its proximal end that interacts with a second electrically conducting element or proximity sensing element on a proximal end of the diagnostic or treatment catheter that can be passed through the central lumen of the guiding sheath and into the patient's heart. The interaction between the two electrically conducting elements or proximity sensing elements enables the location of the distal end of the diagnostic or treatment catheter in the patient's heart without the need for irradiating the patient.

Guiding sheath with distal tip locator

Distal portion of catheter

A catheter includes a catheter body and a distal tip section that includes an elongated member that extends along a longitudinal axis. An anchor mechanism can be disposed along an outer surface of the elongated member and/or within the elongated member in a first configuration. In a second configuration, the anchor mechanism can be configured to extend radially outward with respect to the longitudinal axis to surround at least a portion of the distal tip section.

System and methods of using a catheter with an anchoring mechanism

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La Crescenta, CA, United States of America

Paul Suarez