Method and device for locating guidewire and treating chronic total occlusions

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APP PUB NO 20010031981A1
SERIAL NO

09820301

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Devices, methods, kits, and methods remove obstructive material from the vasculature and other body lumens. Expansible baskets may be used as cooperating radially expansible shearing members. Helically oriented struts of each basket may wind in a uniform circumferential direction. The struts can be independently flexible, allowing the shearing members to flex axially together. The inner basket may be rotatably driven and may use an axial pump extending proximally from the shearing members and/or a distal penetrator for advancing into an occlusion which inhibits guidewire access. The struts may slide substantially continuously across each other, and may be sufficiently aggressive for highly effective thrombectomy. A rotationally static and axially flexible outer basket may provide a safe, limited atherectomy treatment.

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TYCO HEALTHCARE GROUP LP60 MIDDLETOWN AVENUE NORTH HAVEN CT 06473

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Demarais, Denise M San Jose, CA 17 2714
Evans, Michael A Palo Alto, CA 109 18910
Eversull, Christian S Palo Alto, CA 111 7427
Leeflang, Stephen A Stanford, CA 114 6681

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