Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Thomas Ray Hatten

Stephen D Pacetti

Daniel L Cox

William Earl Webler, Jr

Darrin James Kent

David K Wrolstad

Diem Uyen Ta

Mina W Chow

Srinivasan Sridharan

Jessica G Chiu

Douglas H Gesswein

Nianjiong Joan Bei

Robert C Esselstein

Jessie Delgado

Gregory Waimong Chan

Hongzhi Bai

Stephen G Schaible

Leonard Darius Barbod

Gabriel Asongwe

Kenneth Kay Armstrong

Yan Shen

Mark J Bly

Brenna K Hearn

Caroline Wu

Stephen Dirk Pacetti

Embodiments include an infusion-occlusion system having a delivery catheter, a guide catheter adapted to receive the delivery catheter, and a guidewire with an occlusion device adapted to be received within the guide catheter. The guide catheter of the catheter kit may be provided with an occlusion device at the distal end of the guide catheter. The delivery catheter may have an accessory lumen, coaxial or co-linear lumen, a supporting mandrel, or an occlusion device at its distal end. Moreover, according to some embodiments, occlusion devices may be a single material or a composite balloon having an inner liner and an outer layer of different materials, a high compliance low pressure balloon, or a filter device that restricts particles from passing through but does not restrict fluid, such as blood. An inflation device with a large volume and low volume syringe can be used to inflate the balloon.

Infusion treatment agents, catheters, filter devices, and occlusion devices, and use thereof

An improved stent design and stent delivery catheter assembly for repairing a main vessel and a side branch vessel forming a bifurcation. The stent includes rings aligned along a common longitudinal axis and connected by links, where the stent has one or more portals for aligning with and partially expanding into the opening to the side branch vessel. The stent is implanted at a bifurcation so that the main stent section is in the main vessel, and the portal section covers at least a portion of the opening to the side branch vessel. A second stent can be implanted in the side branch vessel and abut the expanded central section to provide full coverage of the bifurcated area in the main vessel and the side branch vessel. Radiopaque markers on the stent and on the tip of the delivery catheter assist in aligning the portal section with the opening to the side branch vessel.

Stent and catheter assembly and method for treating bifurcations

Catheter assembly and method for treating bifurcations

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Thomas Ray Hatten