Patent ID: 6090084
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
A guiding introducer system adapted to conform to a heart, comprising a combination of an inner guiding introducer introduced within a lumen of an outer guiding introducer, wherein the combination of the inner and the outer guiding introducer forms an overall curved shape when a distal portion of the inner guiding introducer is extended from a distal end of the outer guiding introducer, wherein the shape of the combination of the inner and outer guiding introducer comprises an elongated section adapted to extend from an entry point of a patient to a location in the patient's inferior vena cava or right atrium, a left atrium section attached at a distal end of the elongated section and adapted to extend from the elongated section to a location in a left atrium of the heart and a trajectory section attached at a distal end of the left atrium section and adapted to extend from the left atrium section to a desired trajectory toward a wall of the left atrium of the patient's heart.