Patent ID: 8486022

Claim:
An agent delivery needle catheter configured for injecting an agent at an injection site in a wall of a patient's body cavity, comprising: a) an elongated catheter shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and a needle-through lumen therein extending from the proximal end to a needle-through port in a distal end face of the catheter, and the distal end face is at least in part substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of a distal section of the shaft such that the distal end face and needle-through lumen port therein are configured to be pushed against the wall of the patient's body cavity, and the needle-through lumen has an angled distal portion which extends to the needle-through port at an angle greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees relative to the longitudinal axis; and b) a hollow needle slidably disposed in the needle-through lumen of the shaft, having a piercing distal tip and a lumen in fluid communication with a port in the piercing distal tip, and having a retracted configuration in which the piercing distal tip of the needle is in the needle-through lumen of the shaft, and an extended configuration in which the piercing distal tip extends distally out the needle-through port, such that the catheter is configured to form an angled injection pathway in the wall of the patient's body cavity by directing the needle into the wall of the patient's body cavity at the angle of the angled distal portion of the needle-through lumen with the distal end face against the wall of the patient's body cavity at the injection site.