Track Code
P9768

IR #
891

Summary
Lead Inventors: Arthur E. Schwartz MD

Intravascular systems for corporeal cooling are discussed. Catheter systems which are specifically useful to cool organs, tissue, or limbs are described.
The method of treating a patient involves positioning the distal portion of a corporeal cooling catheter within the patient's affected organ and providing cooled blood through the catheter into the internal part of the organ. The intravascular catheter systems for corporeal cooling are specially characterized with a pressure dependent valve, balloons with variable inflation, an annular insulation. The catheter systems also exhibit variation in the size of the tube opening.
The proposed systems are useful in cooling the central nervous system especially useful in treating neurological problems, renal failure, stroke patients minimizing insults and damage. The systems can also be used for delivering drugs or other fluids to a desired corporeal location.
Description 2:
Arthur E. Schwartz MD
Intravascular systems for corporeal cooling are described. Catheter systems which are specifically useful to cool organs, tissue, or limbs are described.
The method of treating a patient involves positioning the distal portion of a corporeal cooling catheter within the patient's affected organ and providing cooled blood through the catheter into the internal part of the organ. The intravascular catheter systems for corporeal cooling are specially characterized with a pressure dependent valve, balloons with variable inflation, an annular insulation. The catheter systems also exhibit variation in the size of the tube opening.
The method assists in treating neurological, renal and cardiac problems. The systems can also be used for delivering drugs or other fluids to a desired corporeal location.

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Patent number: US2006036303
Patent number: WO0074749

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