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Electrophysiology Therapy Catheter

a technology of electrophysiology and catheter, which is applied in the field of electrophysiology equipment, can solve the problems of not providing a high resolution view, affecting the collection of diagnostic information, and injuring the hear

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-10-18
ST JUDE MEDICAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DIV
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There are numerous problems associated with these electrophysiologic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
The motion of the diagnostic catheter and treatment catheter can injure the heart and provoke bouts of arrhythmia which interfere with the collection of diagnostic information.
In addition, the traditional mapping techniques do not provide a high resolution view of the electrical activity of the heart which makes it difficult to precisely locate the source of the arrhythmia.

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[0031]FIG. 1 shows the electrophysiologic apparatus 10 connected to a patient 12. In a typical procedure a monitoring catheter system 14 is placed in the heart 16 to generate a display of the electrical activity of the heart 16. After diagnosis a therapy catheter 18 may be inserted into the heart to perform ablation or other corrective treatment.

[0032] The monitoring catheter 14 has a proximal end 20 which may be manipulated by the attending physician, and a distal end 22 which carries a monitoring catheter electrode set 44. In general the distal end 22 of the monitoring catheter 14 will be relatively small and will float freely in the heart chamber. The therapy catheter 18 has a distal end 24 which carries a therapy catheter electrode set 46. The therapy catheter also has proximal end 26 which can be manipulated by the attending physician.

[0033] The electrode sets located on the catheters are coupled to an interface system 28, through appropriate cables. The cable 30 connects the...

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Abstract

A mapping catheter is positioned in a heart chamber, and active electrode sites are activated to impose an electric field within the chamber. The blood volume and wall motion modulates the electric field, which is detected by passive electrode sites on the preferred catheter. Electrophysiology measurements, as well as geometry measurements, are taken from the passive electrodes and used to display a map of intrinsic heart activity.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED CASES [0001] This is a Divisional Application of U.S. Ser. No. 09 / 005,105, filed Jan. 9, 1998, entitled “Electrophysiology Mapping System;” which was a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. Ser. No. 08 / 387,832, officially filed May 26, 1995 and entitled “Endocardial Mapping System and Catheter Probe”; which is a national stage application based upon international application PCT / US93 / 09015, filed Sep. 23, 1993; which in turn is a Continuation-In-Part of both U.S. Ser. No. 07 / 950,448, filed Sep. 23, 1992 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,291,549) and U.S. Ser. No. 07 / 949,690, also filed Sep. 23, 1992 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,311,866). The parent application, Ser. No. 08 / 387,832, is incorporated by reference herein.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The parent invention relates to electrophysiology apparatus which is used to measure and to visualize electrical activity occurring in a patient's heart. The system can display both a visual map of the underlying electrical activity originatin...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61B18/18
CPCA61B5/0422A61B5/1076A61B5/0538A61B5/053A61B5/287
Inventor BEATTY, GRAYDON E.BUDD, JEFFREY R.HAUCK, JOHN A.
Owner ST JUDE MEDICAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DIV
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