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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
May. 19, 2022
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Mark Schneider, Mound, MD (US);
Ethan Andrew Guggenheimer, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Nickolas Miller, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Sengkham Sirivong, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Bradley Steele, Plymouth, MN (US);
Babak Tabesh, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Akshay Hulasare, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Julie Bu, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
A catheter can restore the patency of a body lumen, for example, by removing tissue from a body lumen (e.g., a blood vessel). The catheter can be a rotational catheter having a rotatable drive shaft and a tissue-removing element secured to the drive shaft to be driven in rotation by the drive shaft. The catheter can have an abrasive burr configured to abrade tissue in a body lumen. The catheter can have an expandable tissue-removing element. The catheter can include a balloon and an inflation conduit. The catheter can also be configured to move over a guidewire through a body lumen. In one embodiment, the catheter comprises an over-the-wire, balloon-expandable, rotational, and abrasive tissue-removing catheter.