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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2004
Agents that stimulate therapeutic angiogenesis and techniques and devices that enable their delivery
Evgenia Mandrusov, Campbell, CA (US);
Murthy V. Simhambhatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Syed Hossainy, Fremont, CA (US);
Eugene T. Michal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Claude, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jessica G. Chiu, Belmont, CA (US);
Evgenia Mandrusov, Campbell, CA (US);
Murthy V. Simhambhatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Syed Hossainy, Fremont, CA (US);
Eugene T. Michal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Claude, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jessica G. Chiu, Belmont, CA (US);
Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method including positioning a catheter at a location in a blood vessel; imaging a thickness of a portion of a wall of the blood vessel at the location; identifying a treatment site; advancing a needle a distance into the wall of the blood vessel to the treatment site; and introducing a treatment agent through the needle to the treatment site. A composition including an inflammation-inducing agent and a carrier in the form of microspheres having a particle size suitable for transvascular delivery. A composition including a therapeutic angiogenesis promoter in a carrier and an opsonin-inhibitor coupled to the carrier. An apparatus for delivery of a therapeutic angiogenesis promoter.