Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively removing an agent from a physiological efferent fluid collection site are provided. A feature of the invention is that a non-occlusive aspiration device is employed to selectively remove the target agent from the site only when the target agent is present in the site. Also provided are systems and kits for performing the subject methods. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including the selective removal of both therapeutic and diagnostic agents from a variety of different physiological sites.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 2004
Date of Patent:
May 1, 2007
Assignee:
Catharos Medical Systems Inc.
Inventors:
Peter J. Fitzgerald, Brian K. Courtney, Ali Hassan
Abstract: A device for directing a wire guide into a bodily passageway such as a branch of the biliary tree or other difficult to access bodily passageway. The device includes a member, such as an inflatable balloon or a self-expanding basket, for obstructing a first passage. Once the balloon is inflated, or the basket expanded, the wire guide can be reliably directed or deflected into a preferred adjacent passageway in order to cannulate the preferred adjacent passageway. A procedure for cannulating a preferred passageway by obstructing a passageway in the natural flow-path of a wire guide is also provided.
Abstract: A needleless syringe comprises a reservoir sealed with mobile closure elements enclosed the liquid, the reservoir being initially isolated from the injection system which is so designed that it comprises at least two peripheral injection conduits located outside a receptacle comprising a blind bore which receives the downstream closure element such that the inlets of the conduits are cleared.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 26, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 6, 2006
Assignee:
Crossject
Inventors:
Patrick Alexandre, Bernard Brouquieres, Xavière Castano, Philippe Gautier