Patent ID: 6808498
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
A system for placing a guide member through the wall of a patient's heart so that the guide member extends through a coronary vessel and the wall of the heart into a heart chamber, the system comprising:an introducer sized and configured for placement through a coronary vessel and the wall of a patient's heart into a heart chamber; a guide member sized and configured to be positioned in the introducer and placed through the coronary vessel and the heart wall into the heart chamber, the guide member having a proximal portion adapted to remain outside the heart and a distal portion adapted to be passed into and then back out of the heart chamber; and a device adapted to remove the guide member from the heart chamber; wherein the guide member is passed through the introducer and moves through the coronary vessel and the heart wall to a location within the heart chamber.