Patents Assigned to Alejandro Berenstein
  • Patent number: 5895378
    Abstract: This is a bloodflow-directable infusion catheter which may be used in cardiovascular and endovascular procedures to deliver diagnostic, therapeutic, or vaso-occlusive agents to a target site accessible through the vasculature. The device is a flow-directed infusion catheter having a variety of sections of different flexibilities with tapered junctions between those sections. Additionally, at least some of the inventive catheter's sections have radio-opaque markers at or near the distal end of the individual sections. The more distal section or sections of the inventive catheter may be severed from the catheter body by the physician user so that the remaining catheter has a suitable diameter for the chosen task and the resulting severed end has a radio-opaque marker showing the catheter's distalmost end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignees: Target Therapeutics, Inc., Alejandro Berenstein
    Inventor: Henry Nita