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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2019
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Conor Reid, Cambridge, MA (US);
Emma B. Headley, Seattle, WA (US);
Dawnielle Farrar-Gaines, Reisterstown, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing access to body passageways. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices, systems and methods to facilitate entry of a guidewire or other endoscopic accessory tool into and/or through patient-specific anatomies. For example, the devices, systems and methods of the present disclosure may rotate a proximal end of a guidewire to transmit mechanical motion to the distal end of the guidewire to facilitate atraumatic access to tortuous or otherwise restricted anatomies.