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Cryogenically enhanced intravascular interventions

  • US 6,468,297 B1
  • Filed: 02/23/2000
  • Issued: 10/22/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for inhibiting restenosis of a blood vessel region, the blood vessel region subjected to a primary treatment effecting an initial reduction in stenosis and inducing the restenosis, the method comprising:

  • cooling an inner surface of the blood vessel region;

    reducing cooling so that the inner surface of the blood vessel warms;

    re-cooling the warmed inner surface so as to define at least one cooling/warming/cooling cycle, the at least one cycle having cooling temperatures and times sufficient to remodel the blood vessel region such that the restenosis of the blood vessel is measurably inhibited.

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