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Shlomo Ben-Haim0
Assaf Govari0
Marcia Leatham0
Uri Yaron0
Yitzhack Schwartz0
Date of Patent
February 14, 2006
0Patent Application Number
102456130
Date Filed
September 17, 2002
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Patent abstract
A catheter introduction apparatus provides an optical assembly for emission of laser light energy. In one application, the catheter and the optical assembly are introduced percutaneously, and transseptally advanced to the ostium of a pulmonary vein. An anchoring balloon is expanded to position a mirror near the ostium of the pulmonary vein, such that light energy is reflected and directed circumferentially around the ostium of the pulmonary vein when a laser light source is energized. A circumferential ablation lesion is thereby produced, which effectively blocks electrical propagation between the pulmonary vein and the left atrium.
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