US Patent No: 6,951,554
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Deflecting catheter
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Oct 4, 2005
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Dec 16, 2002
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10/248,071
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Abstract
A catheter includes a distal end, a proximal end, an outer tube extending from the distal end to the proximal end, and an inner tube extending through the outer tube. The distal end including a corrugated section attached to an end of the inner tube and an asymmetric balloon attached to the outer tube and configured to deflect the distal end of the catheter.
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Cited Art
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| 6,013,072 Systems and methods for steering a catheter through body tissue | 38 | 1997 | |
| 6,048,349 Systems and methods for guiding a medical instrument through a body | 29 | 1997 | |
| 5,951,482 Assemblies and methods for advancing a guide wire through body tissue | 121 | 1997 | |
| 6,063,093 Systems and methods for guiding a medical instrument through a body | 30 | 1999 | |
| 6,463,313 Systems for guiding a medical instrument through a body | 78 | 1999 | |
| 6,394,976 Catheter for controlling the advancement of a guide wire | 23 | 2000 | |
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| 6,231,546 Methods and apparatus for crossing total occlusions in blood vessels | 93 | 1998 | |
| 6,217,527 Methods and apparatus for crossing vascular occlusions | 136 | 1998 | |
| 6,221,049 Methods and apparatus for crossing vascular occlusions | 96 | 1999 | |
| 6,235,000 Apparatus for crossing total occlusion in blood vessels | 77 | 1999 | |
| 2001/0000,041 Methods and apparatus for crossing vascular occlusions | 49 | 2000 | |
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| 5,807,249 Reduced stiffness, bidirectionally deflecting catheter assembly | 93 | 1997 | |
| 6,059,739 Method and apparatus for deflecting a catheter or lead | 51 | 1998 | |
| 6,027,462 Method and apparatus for deflecting a screw-in-lead | 22 | 1998 | |
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| 6,159,227 Balloon catheter with stent securement means | 35 | 1999 | |
| 6,203,558 Stent delivery system having stent securement apparatus | 24 | 1999 | |
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| 4,906,230 Steerable catheter tip | 74 | 1988 | |
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| 5,498,239 Catheter placement by pressurizable tubular guiding core | 39 | 1995 | |
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| 4,909,787 Controllable flexibility catheter with eccentric stiffener | 62 | 1988 | |
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| 5,814,016 Endovascular system for arresting the heart | 164 | 1997 | |
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| 5,269,757 Catheter with integral steerable guidewire having linear to rotary movement | 31 | 1991 | |
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| 5,711,754 Intra-aortic balloon catheter | 33 | 1996 | |
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| 6,165,123 Controllable multi-directional positioning system | 11 | 1998 | |
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| 6,406,442 Guidewire for precision catheter positioning | 21 | 1999 | |
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| RE36764 Expandable tip atherectomy method and apparatus | 19 | 1995 | |
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| 5,061,273 Angioplasty apparatus facilitating rapid exchanges | 418 | 1990 | |
| 5,619,993 Method of controlling curvature of a medical device | 14 | 1995 | |
| 2002/0032,391 Guidewire for precision catheter positioning | 7 | 2001 | |
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