Patent ID: 6749598
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
A method of locally perfusing one or more kidneys comprising:providing a flexible catheter having an inlet region with an inlet port, an outlet region comprising a conduit with an outlet port, and a lumen extending between the inlet port and the outlet port; providing a blood pump; advancing the catheter percutaneously and transluminally along a guidewire to dispose the inlet port in a source of arterial blood; inserting the conduit into a patient's renal artery while maintaining blood flow through the aorta and past the renal artery; engaging the conduit within the patient's renal artery by at least partially occluding the renal artery, where by blood flows through said lumen along the conduit and through the outlet port directly into the renal artery; and actuating the blood pump to increase a rate of blood flow through the lumen.