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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2012
Applicant:
Bryan J. Auyoung, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Bryan J. Auyoung, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/56 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/7065 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00557 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0256 (2013.01); A61M 25/1029 (2013.01);
Abstract
An interspinous process spacer diagnostic parallel balloon catheter and method. The balloon catheter has a plurality of main expandable members disposed one inside another, a distal expandable member and a proximal expandable member that all can be expanded from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration and then collapsed again to a collapsed configuration. The device can be used to determine whether a particular patient is a candidate for implantation of an interspinous process spacer to treat the symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis and the size of such a spacer if indicated.