Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cryosurgical fluid supply
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Application No.: US13716411Application Date: 2012-12-17
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Publication No.: US09050074B2Publication Date: 2015-06-09
- Inventor: James Joye , Richard S. Williams , Ronald William
- Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed. Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Agency: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus
- Main IPC: A61B18/02
- IPC: A61B18/02 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B17/22 ; A61B18/00

Abstract:
Improved systems, devices, and methods for delivering cryogenic cooling fluid to cryosurgical probes such as cryosurgical endovascular balloon catheters take advantage of the transients during the initiation and termination of cryogenic fluid flow to moderate the treatment temperatures of tissues engaged by the probe. A flow limiting element along a cryogenic fluid path intermittently interrupts the flow of cooling fluid, often cycling both the fluid flow and treatment temperature. This can maintain the tissue treatment temperature within a predetermined range which is above the treatment temperature provided by a steady flow of cryogenic fluid. In another aspect, room temperature single-use cooling fluid cartridges are filled with a sufficient quantity of cryosurgical fluid to effect a desired endovascular cryosurgical treatment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130103019A1 Cryosurgical Fluid Supply Public/Granted day:2013-04-25
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