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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2003
Gary M. Ansel, Columbus, OH (US);
Michael J. Bonnette, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Dan T. Janse, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Hieu V. Le, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Gary M. Ansel, Columbus, OH (US);
Michael J. Bonnette, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Dan T. Janse, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Hieu V. Le, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Possis Medical, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A thrombectomy catheter system with occluder and method of using same for removal of tissue, such as thrombus and the like, from a vessel in the body. Multiple catheters and an occluder-bearing guidewire tube at a thrombus site provide for expandable deployment of a compliant occluder against the vasculature walls distal to the thrombus. The expanded occluder is maneuvered proximally to urge thrombus into close proximity with a retractable capture cone located distally on a capture catheter where the thrombus is dislodged, entrained, and broken into pieces by the action of a fluid jet emanator and then evacuated through the capture catheter.