Patent ID: 7729738
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61K,A61M

Abstract:
1. A catheter device for penetrating through the wall of a vessel within a patients body to a target location outside of that vessel, said device comprising: a catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end, the catheter body being advanceable into the vessel; a tissue penetrator that is passable from the catheter body, through the wall of the vessel and to the target location outside the vessel; catheter orientation apparatus comprising at least one of i) an imageable marker indicative of the direction in which the tissue penetrator will pass from the catheter body and ii) an imaging apparatus for imaging at least the target location prior to passage of the tissue penetrator from the catheter body; and, a stabilizer that is radially extendable from the catheter body to deter at least some movement of the catheter body within the vessel as the penetrator penetrates through the wall of the blood vessel.