Flexible catheter shaft and method of manufacture

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9913961
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14510240

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The present disclosure provides a strong, flexible catheter shaft for use in a catheter system. The flexible catheter shaft includes a braided polyimide tube including one or more outer layers of material of varying flexibility. The flexible catheter shaft provides a shaft having sufficient stiffness and kink resistance to allow an operator to advance an electrode basket connected to the flexible catheter shaft through a guide catheter to a target ablation site without causing vessel trauma. The distal tip of the flexible catheter shaft is designed to have sufficient flexibility to reduce any risk of kicking out a guide catheter when tracking the electrode basket around turns into side branches or bifurcations in the vasculature of a patient and includes a distal spring coil.

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ST JUDE MEDICAL CARDIOLOGY DIVISION INC177 EAST COUNTY ROAD B ST PAUL MN 55117

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Cajamarca, Tobias Plymouth, US 3 103
Dakin, Gregory James Edina, US 14 437
Strong, Jeffrey John Coon Rapids, US 3 107

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