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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2022
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Matthew D. Bonner, Plymouth, MN (US);
Kathryn E. Hilpisch, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Ronald A. Drake, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A guide wire system configured to guide a medical device (e.g., a medical lead) to a target area within a patient. The guide wire system may be configured to penetrate and pass through a tissue wall in the patient to guide the medical device to the target area. The guide wire system includes a support section configured to expand to substantially maintain a position relative to the tissue wall. The guide wire system includes a pull wire configured to cause the support portion to expand. The expanded support section may provide counter-traction to a distal force on the tissue wall exerted by a medical device during, for example, fixation of the medical device to the target area, or other stages of an implantation. The support section is configured to re-establish an initial configuration for proximal withdrawal from the tissue wall.