Intravascular method and system for treating arrhythmia

Details Intravascular method and system for treating arrhythmia Intravascular method and system for treating arrhythmia

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A61B 17/12 (2006.01) A61B 5/042 (2006.01) A61B 5/0464 (2006.01) A61B 17/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2154772

A method and system for treating a patient's heart exhibiting arrhythmia by first detecting electrical activity within the patient's heart to determine the location of the arrhythmogenic site or conductive pathway causing the arrhythmia and then creating an infarct within the region of the patient's heart where the arrhythmogenic site or the conductive pathway causing the arrhythmia is located by delivering an occluding element to a coronary artery which delivers oxygenated blood to said region of the patient's heart. In one presently preferred embodiment the occluding element is a flaccid or limp coil which when disposed in a coronary arterial passageway forms a randomly shaped, intertwined mass which quickly forms thrombus within the coronary artery to block the passage of oxygenated blood therethrough. The flaccid coil may be delivered through an inner lumen of a catheter which has a distal portion extending within the coronary artery.

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