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Title:
HEATED BALLOON CATHETER DEVICE AND ITS HEATING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003111848
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To uniformly heat a balloon as a whole.

A high frequency heating electrode 3 and a temperature sensor 4 are disposed within the balloon 2 attached to a tip of a catheter body 1. With the balloon 2 abutting an opening 12a of the pulmonary vein, heating liquid in the balloon 2 is heated by the electrode 3 whereby the opening 12a of the pulmonary vein is cauterized in a ring shape. A reservoir 41 is connected to a connector 20 connected to the rear end of the catheter body 1. The diaphragm 42 of the reservoir 41 is driven by a motor 43 to reciprocate to thereby vibrate heating liquid in the reservoir 41, with this vibration being transmitted to the heating liquid in the balloon 2 via heating liquid in the connector 20 and heating liquid in the catheter body 1. The high-temperature heating liquid heated by the heating electrode 3 tends to rise and collect in the upper part of the balloon 2, but since the heating liquid in the balloon 2 is stirred by the vibration, the balloon 2 is uniformly heated as a whole.


Inventors:
HASEBE KAZUNARI
Application Number:
JP2001310450A
Publication Date:
April 15, 2003
Filing Date:
October 05, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NIHON MEDIX
International Classes:
A61B18/04; A61N1/40; A61B18/12; A61F2/958; A61F7/12; A61M25/00; A61N1/06; A61B17/00; A61B18/00; A61B18/08; A61B18/18; (IPC1-7): A61M25/00; A61B18/12; A61N1/40
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Murata Minoru