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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2007
Filed:
May. 19, 2003
Alan R. Rapacki, Redwood City, CA (US);
Darin C. Gittings, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gilbert S. Laroya, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mark J. Foley, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alan R. Rapacki, Redwood City, CA (US);
Darin C. Gittings, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gilbert S. Laroya, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mark J. Foley, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods for delivering conduits into the wall of a patient's heart to communicate a coronary vessel with a heart chamber. The devices are passed through the coronary vessel and the heart wall to place the conduit and establish a blood flow path between the vessel and the heart chamber. Additional devices and methods are provided for removing tissue from a coronary vessel or the heart wall to establish a flow path between the coronary vessel in communication with the heart chamber.