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Implantable catheter lead or electrode lead

  • US 8,452,420 B2
  • Filed: 07/28/2009
  • Issued: 05/28/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An implantable lead for a catheter and/or an electrode, the lead including:

  • a. an elongated flexible lead body,b. fixation means releasably attached to the lead body for;

    (1) having one or more portions of the fixation means move from an initial location nearer the lead body to a deployed location spaced from the lead body, with the deployed portions fixing the lead body in a predetermined position within a vessel or a bodily cavity of a patient, and(2) releasing from the lead body such that the lead body is removable from the vessel or the bodily cavity of the patient while the fixation means remains fixed in the predetermined position within the vessel or the bodily cavity of the patient.

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