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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
May. 05, 2016
Strait Access Technologies Holdings (Pty) Limited, Cape Town, ZA;
Thomas Gerhardt, Cape Town, ZA;
Peter Rudi Haw, Cape Town, ZA;
Jeremy Douglas Jarman, Cape Town, ZA;
Giuseppe Geldenhuys, Cape Town, ZA;
Kenneth Stuart Park, Cape Town, ZA;
Braden Sydney Clive Van Breda, Cape Town, ZA;
Edward Charles Mudge, Cape Town, ZA;
Deon Bezuidenhout, Cape Town, ZA;
Peter Paul Zilla, Cape Town, ZA;
Strait Access Technologies Holdings (PTY) Ltd, Cape Town, ZA;
Abstract
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.