Ronald D Coleman

US Patent:

6695810, Feb 24, 2004

Filed:

May 16, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/859884

Inventors:

Frederick Gotha - Arcadia CA
Jeffrey S. Kadan - Redondo Beach CA
Ronald Coleman - Oakland CA

Assignee:

Advanced Interventional Technologies, Inc. - Redondo Beach CA

International Classification:

A61M 2900

US Classification:

604 9904, 60410105, 60410202

Abstract:

A medical device system and method allows an arterial bypass graft to be proximally anastomosed to an aorta during a beating heart procedure without substantial loss of blood by use of an endolumenal aorta isolation assembly provided along the distal end portion of an elongate catheter body. The aorta isolation assembly includes proximal and distal portions that are separated by an isolation region and that are adjustable to first and second extended positions, respectively, which are adapted to circumferentially engage the aortic wall and isolate upstream and downstream aspects of an exterior space between the elongate body and the aortic wall. The intermediate region is adapted to be positioned along the proximal anastomosis site such that the distal and proximal portions when adjusted to the first and second extended positions circumferentially engage the aortic wall on upstream and downstream sides of the proximal anastomosis site. Blood flowing within the aorta is thereby isolated from the proximal anastomosis site along the intermediate region and is shunted from an upstream region of the aorta, through the distal port into the flow lumen, proximally along the flow lumen, out from the flow lumen though the proximal port.