Reynaldo G Cruz

US Patent:

7758604, Jul 20, 2010

Filed:

May 29, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/447766

Inventors:

Show-Mean Steve Wu - San Diego CA, US
Ricardo David Roman - San Diego CA, US
Reynaldo Cruz - National City CA, US

Assignee:

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

International Classification:

A61B 17/22

US Classification:

606191, 606159, 606108

Abstract:

An angioplasty balloon catheter and method of making and using the same. The balloon catheter may include a catheter shaft and a balloon coupled to the shaft. The balloon may include one or more cutting edges or member and may include one or more wings. The wings may include an undulating surface.

US Patent:

20140358143, Dec 4, 2014

Filed:

May 31, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/906419

Inventors:

- Minneapols MN, US
Reynaldo O. Cruz - National City CA, US
Aaron R. Strunk - San Diego CA, US

International Classification:

A61B 18/04

US Classification:

606 49

Abstract:

A device and method for treating a variety of tissue locations within a patient's body using a single device that includes an elongate body having a distal portion, a shaft rotatably and slidably disposed within the elongate body, and a first arm and a second arm each coupled to the elongate body distal portion. Retraction and rotation of the shaft transitions the each arm from a linear configuration to a radially expanded configuration in which each arm has an arcuate shape and lies in a plane that is substantially orthogonal to the elongate body longitudinal axis. Electrodes coupled to the arms are equidistant from the longitudinal axis of the elongate body in different radial directions when the device is in the radially expanded configuration. The electrodes are radially symmetrical about the shaft when the radially expanded configuration has a first diameter or a second diameter.