62 results about "Embolization coil" patented technology

An embolic coil deployment system for placing a coil at a preselected site within a vessel of the human body. The deployment system includes a heating element at the distal end of a delivery member and a heat responsive coupling for holding the coil during positioning of the coil and activation means for releasing the coil at a desired position within the vessel.

A catheter system utilizing one or more sensors is described. The catheter can be used as part of an embolic coil system, guidewire system, or combined embolic coil / guidewire system where the devices interact with the catheter system. A variable detachment embolic coil system and guidewire system are also described.

An endovascular device (1, 100, 200, 300) having a distal end (2), a proximal end (4) and a body portion (3) therebetween. The body portion is made of a multiple filament helically wound row (A) of wires (5), provided with a sealing coating (14) on the inside surface or the outside surface or both. The device may be a catheter (1), a sheath, an introducer, a delivery device, a pusher (100), an embolization coil delivery device (300), or a receptacle (208) for an expandable prosthesis (220) used with a delivery device (200). From 2 to 12, and preferably from 4 to 8, wires (5) are used in the row, and fewer wires may be used proceeding toward the distal end (2) for greater flexibility. The helically wound row of wires transmits torque and provides pushability to the device while resisting kinking, and enables a small outside diameter for reaching very small vessels and extending through very tortuous vessels.

A vascular remodeling device is provided that can comprise a proximal section, an intermediate section, and a distal section. During deployment, the proximal section can expand from a compressed delivery state to an expanded state and anchor the device in the afferent vessel of a bifurcation. The distal section can comprise at least one embolization coil that can be positioned within an aneurysm to treat the aneurysm and expand from the compressed delivery state to an expanded state upon deployment. The intermediate section can allow perfusion to efferent vessels. Before, during, and / or after the device is positioned, additional embolic material can be used to treat the aneurysm.

Disclosed are coating compositions, processes, and designs for endowing vascular devices with thromboresistant and endothelializing properties. Also disclosed are designs of vascular devices used as aneurysm treating devices for assisting in the delivery, packing, and maintenance of embolization coils within an aneurysm, particularly a neurovascular aneurysm.

Methods and devices are provided for treatment of an aneurysm within a patient. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, the size and / or shape of the embolic coils can be adjusted to provide optimal filling of the aneurysm. In certain embodiments, the devices include a shape memory material that is responsive to changes in temperature and / or exposure to a magnetic field. A material having enhanced absorption characteristics with regard to a desired heating energy may be used in order to facilitate heating and adjustment of the embolic coil.

An intracranial stent includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a tubular sidewall extending there between and a patch covering at least a portion of the sidewall; wherein the patch is capable of diverting blood flow past the neck of an intracranial aneurysm. The patch may be made of a photon-activatable material or a tightly woven metal material with a density greater than a density of the sidewall itself.

A method and device for occluding an aneurysm. The device may include a wire having a shape memory. The wire may define a coil. The wire may further define a first substantially spherical helix and a second substantially spherical helix nested within the first substantially spherical helix. A catheter may be included, being releaseably engageable to the wire, the wire being at least partially disposed within the catheter.

A medical device for placing a very small embolic coil at a preselected location within a vessel comprising a positioning catheter having a distal tip for retaining a headpiece with an attached embolic coil such that when the catheter is pressurized with a fluid the distal tip of the catheter expands outwardly to release the headpiece and coil at the preselected position. The headpiece has a passageway which extends through the headpiece to permit air to be purged from the catheter prior to insertion of the catheter into the vessel.

Methods and devices are provided for providing a protective framework for treating an aneurysm with embolic coils and preventing mitigation of the embolic coils from the aneurysm. A dynamically remodelable stent having a first and a second configuration is delivered into the blood vessel patient, such as a human or other animal, and positioned adjacent an ostium of an aneurysm while in the first, linear configuration. The dynamically remodelable stent may then be activated to assume a second, expanded configuration and thereby provide a protective framework spanning the neck of the aneurysm during and after delivery of embolic devices, such as embolic coils, to the aneurysm. The stent can be activated within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. In certain embodiments, the stent include a shape memory material that is responsive to changes in temperature and / or exposure to a magnetic field.

A method as provided for occluding the vasculature of a patient. The method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of embolic coils having a textured surface. The embolic coils are introduced into the patient's vasculature. In this manner, the textured surface provides improved platelet adhesion compared to a non-textured surface, to promote clotting. In the illustrative embodiment, the embolic coil comprises a platinum-tungsten alloy wire and the texturing is performed by abrasion or sandblasting to provide substantially uniform roughness comprising pockets having diameters of about 0.125 microns to about fifty microns and depths of about 0.25 microns to about twenty microns.

An endovascular device (1, 100, 200, 300) having a distal end (2), a proximal end (4) and a body portion (3) therebetween. The body portion is made of a multiple filament helically wound row (A) of wires (5), provided with a sealing coating (14) on the inside surface or the outside surface or both. The device may be a catheter (1), a sheath, an introducer, a delivery device, a pusher (100), an embolization coil delivery device (300), or a receptacle (208) for an expandable prosthesis (220) used with a delivery device (200). From 2 to 12, and preferably from 4 to 8, wires (5) are used in the row, and fewer wires may be used proceeding toward the distal end (2) for greater flexibility. The helically wound row of wires transmits torque and provides pushability to the device while resisting kinking, and enables a small outside diameter for reaching very small vessels and extending through very tortuous vessels.

A system and method for ultrasonically guided endoscopic (EUS) delivery of one or more embolization coils to an internal body site. The embolization coil delivery devices are preferably ultrasonically guided to the selected internal body site after being advanced through the working channel of an endoscope with its distal end located near the selected internal body site. In one aspect, the system and method may be utilized to deploy an embolization coil into a lesion to promote thrombosis and / or prevent bleeding.

The present invention provides an improved implantable medical device comprising at least one portion made of a radiopaque material selected from the group consisting of various palladium alloys, including a palladium alloy having, by weight, rhenium in the range of up to about 20 percent, and preferably rhenium at about 14 percent of the alloy, by weight. The present invention further provides a wire guide, an embolization coil, a marker band, a stent, a filter, an RF ablation coil, and an electrode having at least one portion made of the radiopaque material.

A catheter system utilizing one or more sensors is described. The catheter can be used as part of an embolic coil system, guidewire system, or combined embolic coil / guidewire system where the devices interact with the catheter system. A variable detachment embolic coil system and guidewire system are also described.

An occluding device for occlusion of fluid flow through a body cavity is disclosed. The device comprises an embolization coil formed from at least one wire strand and having an initial tension. The embolization coil is defined by a primary coil formed into a secondary coil. The primary coil has a primary shape defined by a linear longitudinally extending coil having a plurality of helical turns and is helically wound into the secondary coil, wherein the secondary coil has a series of axially spaced apart loops. The axially spaced apart loops are larger than the helical turns of the primary coil. The embolization coil is movable between an expanded state for occlusion of a body cavity and a collapsed state for delivery or retrieval. An absorbent material, including at least one of cotton and regenerated cellulose, is attached to the embolization coil and extends therefrom. A kit is also included.

An embolic coil configured in such a manner that the risk that a stretch preventing wire breaks is very small even if the embolic coil is wound to a diameter smaller than the diameter of a secondary shape of the coil imparted thereto and also in such a manner that the embolic coil has excellent deliverability. An embolic coil is configured in such a manner that a stretch preventing wire and a coil, a part or the whole of said coil being coarsely wound, are affixed to each other at at least two different points. The portion of the stretch preventing wire which is located between the two different portions is provided with a portion to which a stretchable shape has been imparted.

A detachable embolization coil is screw threaded at the proximal end for releasable attachment to a delivery member within a delivery catheter. The coil has a proximal fibred portion and a distal non-fibred portion, the axial length of the non-fibred portion being as great or greater than the axial length of the non-fibred portion. The fibred portion carries a plurality of fibres of thrombogenic fibrous material. In this way, a partially delivered coil may be retracted into a delivery catheter for repositioning, substantially without hindrance from clotting.

Disclosed are coating compositions, processes, and designs for endowing vascular devices with thromboresistant and endothelializing properties. Also disclosed are designs of vascular devices used as aneurysm treating devices for assisting in the delivery, packing, and maintenance of embolization coils within an aneurysm, particularly a neurovascular aneurysm.

The invention relates to an embolization device (1) comprising a basal body (3) and at least one thrombogenic fibre (2) forming thrombus, wherein the basal body can be converted from an elongate primary shape to a secondary shape, the at least one thrombogenic fibre is arranged in a configuration wound around the basal body. In a method for producing an embolization coil of this kind, a primary coil (30) forming a basal body (3) of the embolization coil (1) has at least one thrombogenic fibre (2) wound around it, and the primary coil (30) is converted in shape to a secondary coil.

In at least one embodiment of the present invention, a method for making an occluding device for occlusion of fluid flow through a lumen of a body vessel is provided. The method comprises attaching a coating to an embolization coil that is substantially straight. The coating is nominally strained on the substantially straight embolization coil. The embolization coil has a pre-curled tension to facilitate the embolization coil being curled within the lumen of the body vessel when deployed. The embolization coil is restrained from curling until deploying to reduce pre-deployment straining of the coating.

A method as provided for occluding the vasculature of a patient. The method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of embolic coils having a textured surface. The embolic coils are introduced into the patient's vasculature. In this manner, the textured surface provides improved platelet adhesion compared to a non-textured surface, to promote clotting. In the illustrative embodiment, the embolic coil comprises a platinum-tungsten alloy wire and the texturing is performed by abrasion or sandblasting to provide substantially uniform roughness comprising pockets having diameters of about 0.125 microns to about fifty microns and depths of about 0.25 microns to about twenty microns.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a device for delivering an embolization coil into a microcatheter for deployment of the embolization coil from the microcatheter into a body vessel of a patient is provided. The device comprises a cannula that has a proximal portion extending to a distal portion. The cannula has a lumen formed through the proximal and distal portions. The distal portion has a distal tip that is formed from metal and is configured to interface with the microcatheter for advancing the embolization coil from the lumen into the microcatheter. The proximal portion is at least partially formed of a transparent material for viewing into the lumen to facilitate delivery of the embolization coil into the microcatheter.

Provided is an embolization coil in which even if the coil is wound in a shape of a small diameter, an elongation-preventing wire is not broken and the delivery property thereof can be prevented from deterioration. An embolization coil has a coil of partial or full-pitch winding and an elongation-preventing wire which are fixed respectively at two points different from each other, and is characterized in that the natural length of the coil arranged between two different points before the coil is fixed is longer than the length of the elongation-preventing wire arranged between two different points before the elongation-preventing wire is fixed.

The invention discloses an embolism spring ring conveying system, and belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, the embolism spring ring conveying system comprises an implant, the implant comprises a release assembly, and one end, extending out of the implant, of a rod-shaped part of the release assembly is provided with a spherical head; the pushing system comprises a releasing wire, and the end, close to the implant, of the releasing wire is wound around the releasing assembly so that the releasing wire can be detachably installed on the releasing assembly through the spherical head; and the breaking and releasing mechanism is located at the end, far away from the implant, of the pushing system, and the releasing wire far away from the spherical head extends into the breaking and releasing mechanism and is used for breaking to achieve separation of the implant. According to the novel mechanical release structure, the release wire at the far end is detachably connected with the release assembly through the spiral spring-shaped structure, the machining precision and the assembly requirement of parts are lowered, and the release reliability is improved.

A device and method of treating an aneurysm in a cranial artery of a patient includes providing a coil delivery system having a bypass catheter with a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and an intermediate portion. The bypass catheter also includes a bypass lumen extending from the proximal end portion to the distal end portion and a coil delivery lumen that extends from the proximal end portion to a coil delivery opening in a side wall of the bypass catheter. The coil delivery system also includes an embolic coil or multiple coils capable of being deployed separately through the coil delivery opening and electrolytically detached, and at least one balloon disposed about an outer surface of the bypass catheter and capable of substantially preventing blood flow around the outer surface of the bypass catheter when inflated. The system may be used without coil embolization to provide endovascular bypass with segmental vessel occlusion during brain surgery such as craniotomy with clipping of a cerebral aneurysm.

The invention provides a releasable embolic spring coil system. The releasable embolism spring ring system comprises a conveying device, a release device and an embolism spring ring, wherein the conveying device comprises a push rod which is of a hollow pipe shape; limiting parts are arranged on the inner wall of the far end of the push rod; the release device comprises a release wire and a release ball; the release wire is arranged in the push rod; the far end of the release ball is connected with the embolism spring ring; in a limiting state, the release ball is limited in the push rod by the release wire and the limiting parts; and in a release state, the release ball is separated from limiting and is separated from the push rod from a far end position; thus, the embolism spring ring isreleased. The releasable embolism spring ring system provided by the invention can stably convey a spring ring into a position needing thrombus occlusion in a human body; the spring ring is easily and mechanically released; thus, the releasable embolism spring ring system is simple in operation and sensitive in response, and does not damage blood vessels.