Platform Catheter

• US 20070203452A1
• Filed: 10/07/2004
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Henry Ford Health System
• Original Assignee: Henry Ford Health System
• Inventors: Mehta, Bharat
• Application Number:
  US10/575,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20070203452A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/96.10
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12022 Occluding by internal devices, e.g. balloons or releasable wires plugging an opening in the wall of an organ A61B17/0057; occluders for the cervical canal A61F6/146; vas deferens occluders A61F6/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12113 within an aneurysm
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12145 having a pre-set deployed three-dimensional shape methods of manufacturing A61B2017/00526
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1219 expandable in contact with liquids
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/12063 electrolytically detachable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0057 Catheters delivering medicament other than through a conventional lumen, e.g. porous walls or hydrogel coatings
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0069 Tip not integral with tube
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0074 Dynamic characteristics of the catheter tip, e.g. openable, closable, expandable or deformable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0082 Catheter tip comprising a tool

Abstract

A catheter including an end portion having a platform extending substantially radially outwardly therefrom. A catheter for treating aneurysms, the catheter including a lumen having an insertion end and an opposite end and a radially outwardly expandable ring attached to the insertion end of the catheter. An expandable ring capable of being attached to a catheter. A method of treating an aneurysm by inserting the above catheter into an artery in need of treatment.

Claims

1. A catheter including an end portion having a platform extending substantially radially outwardly therefrom.

2. The catheter according to claim 1, wherein said platform is formed of a biocompatible expandable material for expanding in situ.

3. The catheter according to claim 2, wherein said expandable material is capable of expanding two to three times the original size.

4. The catheter according to claim 2, wherein said expandable material is a hydrophilic material.

5. The catheter according to claim 4, wherein said hydrophilic material is a hydrogel.

6. The catheter according to claim 1, wherein said platform is ring-shaped.

17. A method of treating an aneurysm by inserting the catheter according to claim 1 into an artery in need of treatment.

7. A catheter for treating aneurysms, said catheter comprising:

a lumen having an insertion end and an opposite end; and

a radially outwardly expandable ring attached to the insertion end of the catheter.

8. The catheter according to claim 7, wherein said expandable ring is formed of a biocompatible expandable material.

9. The catheter according to claim 8, wherein said expandable material is capable of expanding two to three times the original size.

10. The catheter according to claim 8, wherein said expandable material is a hydrophilic material.

11. The catheter according to claim 10, wherein said hydrophilic material is a hydrogel.

12. An expandable ring capable of being attached to a catheter.

13. The expandable ring according to claim 12, wherein said expandable ring is formed of a biocompatible expandable material.

14. The expandable ring according to claim 13, wherein said expandable material is capable of expanding two to three times the original size.

15. The expandable ring according to claim 13, wherein said expandable material is a hydrophilic material.

16. The expandable ring according to claim 15, wherein said hydrophilic material is a hydrogel.