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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2012
Timothy G. Laske, Shoreview, MN (US);
Claudia Lueckge, L'ile-Bizard, CA;
Réal Ste-marie, Notre-Dame-de-L'Ile-Perrot, CA;
Timothy G. Laske, Shoreview, MN (US);
Claudia Lueckge, L'ile-Bizard, CA;
Réal Ste-Marie, Notre-Dame-de-L'Ile-Perrot, CA;
Medtronic CryoCath LP, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A medical device including an ablation element. A thermally insulative sheath is included disposed within the ablation element. A fluid injection tube is disposed within a portion of the thermally insulative sheath. The ablation element passively transitions from a substantially linear geometric configuration to a substantially circular geometric configuration as the sheath is retracted proximally from a first position in which the sheath substantially encloses the fluid injection tube to a second position in which a portion of the fluid injection tube extends a distance away from the sheath.