EMBOLECTOMY DEVICES

• US 20170079767A1
• Filed: 09/20/2016
• Published: 03/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings, LLC (Stryker Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Stryker Corporation, Stryker European Holdings I, LLC (Stryker Corporation)
• Inventors: Leon-Yip, Garvin
• Granted Patent: US 10,441,404 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/221 Gripping devices in the form of loops or baskets for gripping calculi or similar types of obstructions surgical snare instruments A61B17/32056
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00477 Coupling A61B2017/0046 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/22034 for gripping the obstruction or the tissue part from inside
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2215 having an open distal end
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/011 Instruments for their placement or removal
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/016 made from wire-like elements

Abstract

An embolectomy device includes a clot engaging structure comprising a plurality of interconnected struts forming an open cell structure, and further includes an attachment structure configured to advance and retract the clot engaging structure out of, and back into, respectively, the open distal end of a delivery catheter, the attachment structure comprising an elongated support member attached to one or more struts of the clot engaging structure only at locations on each of the respective one or more struts that are distal of a proximal end of the clot engaging structure.

Claims

1. An embolectomy device, comprising:

a clot engaging structure comprising a plurality of interconnected struts forming an open cell structure having a proximal end; and

an attachment structure configured to advance and retract the clot engaging structure out of, and back into, respectively, a distal opening of a delivery catheter within a targeted blood vessel, the attachment structure comprising an elongated support member attached to one or more struts of the clot engaging structure only at locations on each of the respective one or more struts that are distal of the proximal end of the clot engaging structure, so that withdrawal forces are exerted to the locations distal of the proximal end of the clot engaging structure when retracted.

2. The embolectomy device of claim 1, wherein the one or more struts comprise a plurality of struts of the clot engaging structure attached to the elongated support member.

3. The embolectomy device of claim 1, wherein the elongated support member comprises a flexible wire.

4. The embolectomy device of claim 1, wherein the one or more struts of the clot engaging structure are directly attached to the elongated support member.

5. The embolectomy device of claim 1, the attachment structure further comprising a distal end coupler connected to the elongated support member, wherein the one or more struts of the clot engaging structure are attached to the distal end coupler and thereby indirectly attached to the elongated support member.

6. The embolectomy device of claim 1, the clot engaging structure having an axial length, when the most proximal attachment location of any strut to the elongated support member is distal of at least about twenty percent of the axial length of the clot engaging structure.

7. The embolectomy device of claim 6, when the location of the most proximal attachment point of any strut of the clot engaging structure to the elongated support member is at or approximately at a midpoint of the axial length of the clot engaging structure.

8. The embolectomy device of claim 1, wherein a plurality of struts defining the proximal end of the clot engaging structure are connected to a proximal end connector ring having a lumen through which the elongated support member extends.

9. The embolectomy device of claim 8, wherein the proximal end connector ring comprises or is otherwise coupled to a radiopaque marker.

10. The embolectomy device of claim 8, wherein the elongated support member is translatable relative to the proximal end connector ring, the attachment structure further comprising a bumper fixedly attached to the elongated support member distal of the proximal end connector ring, such that the bumper prevents translation of the elongated support member in a proximal direction relative to the clot engaging structure beyond a relative position in which the bumper engages the proximal end connector ring.

11. The embolectomy device of claim 1, wherein the withdrawal forces from the elongated support member do not collapse the cell structures and/or reduce a profile of the clot engaging structure.