CA2666334A1 - Endovascular cryotreatment catheter - Google Patents

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CA2666334A1
CA2666334A1 CA002666334A CA2666334A CA2666334A1 CA 2666334 A1 CA2666334 A1 CA 2666334A1 CA 002666334 A CA002666334 A CA 002666334A CA 2666334 A CA2666334 A CA 2666334A CA 2666334 A1 CA2666334 A1 CA 2666334A1
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Miriam Lane
Leonilda Capuano
David Holtan
Jean-Pierre Lalonde
Claudia Lueckge
Jean-Luc Pageard
Marwan Abboud
Johnny Al Asmar
Abderrahim Benrabah
Ken Chen
John W. Lehmann
Philippe Marchand
Robert Martin
Frederic L. Milder
Daniel Nahon
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Medtronic Cryocath LP
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Cryocath Technologies Inc.
Miriam Lane
Leonilda Capuano
David Holtan
Jean-Pierre Lalonde
Claudia Lueckge
Jean-Luc Pageard
Marwan Abboud
Johnny Al Asmar
Abderrahim Benrabah
Ken Chen
John W. Lehmann
Philippe Marchand
Robert Martin
Frederic L. Milder
Daniel Nahon
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Abstract

An elongated catheter device with a distal balloon assembly is adapted for endovascular insertion. Coolant injected through the device may, in different embodiments, directly cool tissue contacting the balloon, or may cool a separate internal chamber. In the first case, the coolant also inflates the balloon, and spent coolant is returned to the handle via a return passage extending through the body of the catheter. Plural balloons may be provided, wherein a secondary outer balloon surrounds a primary inner balloon, the primary balloon being filled with coolant and acting as the cooling chamber, the secondary balloon being coupled to a vacuum return lumen to serve as a robust leak containment device and thermal insulator around the cooling chamber. Various configurations, such as surface modification of the balloon interface, or placement of particles, coatings, or expandable meshes or coils in the balloon interface, may be employed to achieve this function.

Claims (7)

1. A catheter comprising:

a handle in fluid communication with a supply of cooling fluid having a boiling temperature, and a source of fluid evacuation, a cooling chamber having fluid impermeable inner and outer surfaces, an elongate catheter body having a coolant injection lumen having proximal and distal end portions, the proximal end portion being in fluid communication with the supply of cooling fluid, the distal end portion being in fluid communication with the cooling chamber, and a primary return lumen having proximal and distal end portions, the proximal end portion being in fluid communication with the source of vacuum, the distal end portion being in fluid communication with the cooling chamber, an expandable member having inner and outer surfaces coupled around said cooling chamber, wherein a space exists between the cooling chamber outer surface and the expandable member inner surface, and a secondary return lumen disposed within the catheter body, having proximal and distal end portions, the proximal end portion being in fluid communication with the source of vacuum, the distal end portion being in fluid communication with the space.
2. The catheter of claim 1, wherein the cooling chamber is controllably filled with cooling fluid, and vacuum is applied to the primary return lumen to direct the cooling fluid to flow from the cooling chamber through to the primary return lumen.
3. The catheter of claim 2, wherein the outer surface of the expandable member is disposed in contact with tissue proximate a body lumen to effect thermal conduction between said tissue and the flow of cooling fluid in the cooling chamber.
4. The catheter of claim 2, wherein vacuum is applied to the secondary return lumen.
5. The catheter of claim 1, wherein the cooling chamber is an inflatable membrane transitionable from a first volume to a second volume, the second volume being larger than the first volume.
6. The catheter of claim 1, further comprising at least one temperature sensor disposed within the cooling chamber.
7. The catheter of claim 1, further comprising at least one pressure sensor disposed with the cooling chamber.
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