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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2002
Yitzhack Schwartz, Haifa, IL;
Assaf Govari, Haifa, IL;
Shlomo Ben-haim, Haifa, IL;
Uri Yaron, Zichron-Yaccov, IL;
Marcia Leatham, Orange, CA (US);
Yitzhack Schwartz, Haifa, IL;
Assaf Govari, Haifa, IL;
Shlomo Ben-Haim, Haifa, IL;
Uri Yaron, Zichron-Yaccov, IL;
Marcia Leatham, Orange, CA (US);
Biosense Inc., New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Abstract
A catheter introduction apparatus provides an optical assembly for emission of laser light energy. In one application, the catheter and the optical assembly are introduced percutaneously, and transseptally advanced to the ostium of a pulmonary vein. An anchoring balloon is expanded to position a mirror near the ostium of the pulmonary vein, such that light energy is reflected and directed circumferentially around the ostium of the pulmonary vein when a laser light source is energized. A circumferential ablation lesion is thereby produced, which effectively blocks electrical propagation between the pulmonary vein and the left atrium.