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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2011
J. Christopher Flaherty, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joshua Makower, Los Altos, CA (US);
Philip C. Evard, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick E. Macaulay, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason B. Whitt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert C. Colloton, Cupertino, CA (US);
K. Angela Macfarlane, Cupertino, CA (US);
J. Christopher Flaherty, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joshua Makower, Los Altos, CA (US);
Philip C. Evard, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick E. Macaulay, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason B. Whitt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert C. Colloton, Cupertino, CA (US);
K. Angela Macfarlane, Cupertino, CA (US);
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for delivering drugs or other substances to target locations outside of blood vessel lumens or other body lumens. In some embodiments, a catheter having a penetrator is advanced into the body lumen and the penetrator is then advanced from the catheter toward a target location outside of that body lumen. The substance is then delivered through a the penetrator itself or through a delivery catheter that has been advanced through the penetrator to the target location. In other embodiments, the blood vessel or other body lumen is blocked at spaced-apart first and second locations and a quantity of the substance is introduced into the closed-off body lumen between the blocked first and second locations. The substance then diffuses into or through the wall of the vessel or body conduit to reach the target location.