Field of the invention:

[001] This invention relates generally to accessories for cardiovascular surgery, and more specifically in the minimally invasive devices of endovascular area, for the purpose of transporting endovascular devices, such as stent- grafts, to the target location during procedures for surgical correction of diseases or arterial malformations.

Fundamentals of the invention:

[002] The arteries are the blood vessels responsible for carrying the blood from the heart to the other parts of the body, they are pulsatile vessels, and the changes in these vessels can lead to decrease of circulation.

[003] Non-treatment of arterial diseases can lead to organ loss, limb loss (amputation) and even death, since rupture of vessels can lead to bulky bleeding. Several comorbidities can affect the blood vessels, including aneurysms, dissections, ruptures and atheromatoses, all of which are amenable to endovascular treatment.

[004] Among these, the most frequent diseases are the aneurysm, which is a dilation, conceptually corresponding to a blood vessel with a diameter 50% larger than normal. The characteristic dilatation of the aneurysm, when it occurs in the aorta that passes through the thorax, is called a thoracic aortic aneurysm, and the dilation that occurs in the segment of the aorta that passes through the abdomen is called the abdominal aortic aneurysm.

[005] Over time dilation may make the artery weak and normal blood pressure may cause it to rupture, with surgical treatment being the only recourse for the repair of an aneurysm. Traditional open surgery had been widely used, and consists of implanting a vascular prosthesis into the aneurysmal sac by means of proximal and distal control. This technique was considered to be gold standard by being well established .

[006] However, in recent years, important contributions have emerged, particularly minimally invasive, a concept in which aortic diseases can be corrected by endovascular prostheses positioned inside the aorta through catheters introduced into the femoral artery under radiological control .

[007] Basically, these advances were introduced by Parodi and contributors in an article published in 1991, in treatments of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms after extensive experimental studies. The dissection of the descending aorta and aneurysms that worried clinicians and surgeons because of the high mortality and morbidity rates, found in endovascular therapy a very effective option and thus the first works in the literature with encouraging results appeared.

[008] Endoprostheses used in endovascular techniques, also known as stents, are metallic mesh-shaped structures inserted into vascular lumen, whose function is to keep the arterial lumen open, using mechanical pressure. This device avoids restenosis, being self-expanding or expansive balloon type .

[009] In order for these prostheses to be delivered to the site of the disease without large cuts, there is a need to transport it through a device called catheter. The catheters have a small caliber to be compatible with the blood vessels, being flexible, with columnar and bend resistance, besides having a precise positioning system that can be controlled

[010] The structure is composed mainly of PTFE and another polymeric parts, with a gauntlet to perform the release of the stents. The stents are compressed by thin plastic membrane over a small gauge catheter, or are compressed into larger diameter catheters. Thus, catheters are the delivery means for endovascular endoprostheses, bringing the device from the entry site to the implant site.

[Oil] Currently, when the endoprosthesis implant region has lateral branches that irrigate several organs such as kidneys, liver and intestine, these branches cannot be obstructed, so there is a need to create lateral branches for each of these arteries.

[012] In this case, one by one of the branches needs to be catheterized with a guidewire, requiring a technical skill and a longer period of time for the surgical procedure. In other words, there is an increase in the surgical time, which can harm the patient.

State of the art :

[013] Some prior art documents describe solutions for endovascular procedures, with various technologies related to different models of prostheses and methods of delivering these prostheses inside the human body.

[014] Firstly, some solutions about the endovascular stents came out in the 1980s, of which we can highlight the Patent US458058 of Cesare Gianturco, which describes an endovascular stent formed of stainless steel wire of 0.018 inches diameter and arranged in a closed zig-zag pattern. In this case, a flat-ended catheter is used through the sheath to hold the stent in place in the passageway while the sheath is withdrawn from the passageway.

[015] Posteriorly, in the 1990s, Parodi filed a large number of patents for its inventions, such as US5911733A and US6238432B1, however, the solutions were related to the structure of the stents for specific applications. In US5911733A, for example, an endovascular expander of non migrant positioning were developed, which includes a tubular body-generally structured by a wire mesh and the expander has a plurality of unidirectional anchorages in proximal arrangement to said tubular body and in the sense of its generatrix. That is, none of the abovementioned documents provide solutions regarding the delivery of endoprosthesis.

[016] For solve the delivery catheter issues there were developed some modality of catheters such as presented in US6102942A, US5824055A, US5944727A, having only the gauntlet, and, in addition, catheters for delivery exclusively in the thoracic region were explored, as in US6939370B2. This last Patent reveals a stent graft deployment device adapted for release of a distal end of a stent graft before the proximal end of the stent graft (25) . The arrangement allows movement of at least part of the deployment catheter independently of movement of a proximal end release mechanism has a fixed handle associated with a trigger wire release mechanism and a sliding handle (17) to which the deployment catheter and a capsule (21) are fixed. Although despite promoting a delivery mechanism, there is no possibility of implementing multiple wires, as there is only one channel. [017] Other catheters are known as multi lumen, however, the application field and mechanisms involved usually diverge from those of the present invention, since a lot of them are dedicated to the dialysis area for transport fluids, as in US8002729, US8496607, US20090054826A1.

[018] Some of this catheters involves the transport of wires and fluids, as in US5250038, transport of only isolated guide wire, as in US5328480, besides to simple introducers, as in W02005011788. W02005011788 describes an apparatus for introducing a first elongate medical device (10) and short wire guide (11) that are coupled together into a work site and remotely disconnecting them within the work site such that a secondary device comprising a catheter member can be introduced over the wire guide to the work site, and/or a second wire guide can be introduced to the work site via a passageway of the primary access device.

[019] The main differences in relation to the present invention is on the guide of a wire, which has a distal end, a proximal end, and a second indicator, wherein the wire guide is movable from a coupled position to an uncoupled. In this solution, there is only a simple introduction of elongate medical devices without the certainty that multiple medical devices would not get involved when introduced concomitantly .

[020] Other patent documents contain catheters multi lumen such as US8518013, W02006062873, W02018022404. W02018022404, for example, displays a Steerable multilumen catheter shaft, comprising a multi lumen catheter shaft body wherein a plurality of longitudinal lumens extends through at least a major length of the catheter shaft body. However, the process of positioning the wires in parallel is conducted in the patient's internal region, with more chances of more likely to cause trauma to the patient.

[021] Another documents which can be cited are the US5374245, US5509897, US5797869, US 2008 0255653 A1 , WO 2007 053187, US88083788 B2. This last US Patent is about an apparatus for delivering stents to body lumens include flexible catheter shaft, an expandable member, a tubular prosthesis selectively movable in an axial direction over the expandable member, and a stop member disposed on the catheter shaft near the distal end of the catheter shaft for stopping the prosthesis at a deployment position on the expandable member. The focus of this solution is to guide and positioning prostheses for deployment from a catheter, without establishing a device that could guide multiple wires .

Brief summary of the invention:

[022] The present invention is related a release device that pre-catheterizes the lateral branches in the catheter itself, which has multi channels for passage of each of the wires, preventing the occurrence of strictures in the wires and delivering the already pre-catheterized prosthesis, making the procedure faster and with a lower need for total scopia time. The main advantages achieved by using this device is a decrease in the rate of complications in the release of the prosthesis, shorter surgery time, shorter use of scopia during the procedure, which leads to a lower morbidity of patients and a faster recovery.

Brief description of the drawings:

[023] FIG. 1 is a front view of the Multi lumen release device 1 with the channels 2.

[024] FIG. 2 is a side view of the Multi lumen release device 1 with the channels 2 which.

[025] FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the catheter with the device 1.

Detailed description of the invention:

[026] The present invention is a device, which is a tube made of polymeric material, which comprises one or more channels, whose function is to guarantee the passage of the wires without crossing, in surgical procedures which involves the transportation of an endoprosthesis and branches adjacent to it.

[027] Using this device is possible to pre-catheterize the wires, only requiring the release of each of them, without the need to capture each of the wires independently, reducing surgery time and use of the scopia.

[028] The device is applied together with a catheter, which brings the possibility of implanting more complex prostheses with greater ease in its application.

[029] Such device may have its femoral or brachial access and is introduced to the other end, creating a connection for the wires to pass in parallel.

[030] One or more wires are added in the conventional catheter, and such wires pass through the respective prosthesis channels and later into the multi lumen catheter. This ensures that all the wires of the connections pass through the patient's body without using the scopia or the capture of the wires within the patient.

[031] With all this process done outside the patient, it becomes more precise and less tiring for medical staff, and also eliminating a considerable time of exposure to the scopia .

[032] The device is withdrawn via brachial as the prosthesis catheter enters the patient via femoral, and when the prosthesis arrives in the proper position, then it is released with all the connection paths already pre- established by the wires, with the assurance that they did not meet each other on the way.

[033] In the next steps each wire is selected in the brachial access to insert its respective complement. At this stage, the wire is already guiding the complement into the prosthesis connection, and the medical team will only need to catheterize the patient's artery. Eliminating the time to catheterize the prosthesis connection, the medical staff gains not only time but also avoids the stress of this step.

[034] The multi lumen release device 1 is a tube made of polymeric material, which comprises one or more channels 2, and in each channel pass one wire 3 , preventing the occurrence of strictures in the wires and delivering the already pre-catheterized prosthesis, according to Figure 1.

[035] The channels 2 run through the entire length of the device 1, according to Figure 2. The polymeric tube has an elongate conformation, compatible with the vessel of the human body .

[036] The polymeric tube may be lengthwise movable in the catheter where it is inserted and the wire is inserted inside the catheter and inside the prosthesis branch.

[037] Each wire 3 coming from the catheterization equipment 5 where the wires pass through the inner part of the catheter and into the branches of the prosthesis, extends longitudinally in direction to the multi lumen release device 1, wherein the device is involved by the stent 4.

[038] The catheter is inserted at one end of the human body, such as, but not limited to, the leg, and the branches coming out of the other end of the human body, such as, but not limited to, the arm, using the organism ducts as a channel .