Gastrointestinal tool over guidewire

• US 20050038319A1
• Filed: 12/30/2003
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: G.I. View Ltd.
• Original Assignee: G.I. View Ltd.
• Inventors: Cabiri, Oz, Goldwasser, Benad, Gross, Yosef
• Application Number:
  US10/747,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20050038319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/104
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00082 Balloons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/018 for receiving instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/04 combined with photographic or television appliances
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/273 for the upper alimentary canal, e.g. oesophagoscopes, gastroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/31 for the rectum, e.g. proctoscopes, sigmoidoscopes , colonoscopes

Abstract

Gastrointestinal apparatus including a guidewire, and a gastrointestinal tool including a guiding member formed with a bore, the guidewire passing through the bore.

Claims

1. Gastrointestinal apparatus comprising:

a guidewire; and

a gastrointestinal tool comprising a guiding member formed with a bore, said guidewire passing through said bore.

2. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said guiding member is positioned inwards of an outer contour of said gastrointestinal tool.

3. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said guiding member is positioned outside an outer contour of said gastrointestinal tool.

4. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises a radioactive device comprising at least one of a radioactive tube, radioactive needle, radioactive seed, and radioactive capsule.

5. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises an iontophoresis drug delivery device.

6. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises an injection device for injection of a substance.

7. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises a photodynamic therapy/diagnosis device.

8. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises a hyperthermic therapy/diagnosis device.

9. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises an ultrasonic therapy/diagnosis device.

10. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a propulsion device adapted to propel said gastrointestinal tool along said guidewire.

11. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an anchoring device adapted to anchor said guidewire at a position in a gastrointestinal tract.

12. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said anchoring device comprises an inflatable balloon.

13. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool is coupled to a pulley.

14. The gastrointestinal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said gastrointestinal tool comprises an imaging device.