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The present invention relates to a balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes. The device comprises a handle, a lead, a pulse generation circuit and a surgical control device, and is also provided with an expansion device at a working end, wherein the expansion device comprises the following components: a catheter shaft located at the front end of the working end and used for being inserted into an organ lesion part of a patient, wherein the catheter shaft is telescopic in length; a balloon, wherein the balloon is closely wrapped on the outer side of the catheter shaft, and the front end of the balloon is flat after being inflated; the flexible base materials radially cover the outer surface of the balloon, and the flexible base materials are uniformly arranged; and the flexible electrode is arranged on the upper surface of the flexible base material, is connected with the pulse generating circuit and is used for generating electric pulses for ablating pathological tissues. The utility model has the advantages of better adhesion with endocardial tissue, reasonable ablation range and angle, good ablation pertinence, stable ablation effect and convenient operation and is provided with the flexible electrode.
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The utility model relates to a medical instrument, belongs to the field of pulse ablation technology operation, and particularly relates to a balloon catheter device with a flexible electrode.
Background
Radio Frequency (RF) ablation and cryoablation are two common methods for treating arrhythmia such as severe atrial fibrillation in clinical practice. The success of ablation depends primarily on whether the ablation range is continuous and sufficient. The damage must be sufficient to destroy the arrhythmogenic tissue or to substantially interfere with or isolate abnormal electrical conduction within the myocardial tissue. Excessive ablation will have an effect on surrounding healthy tissue as well as on neural tissue. The radiofrequency ablation can reach all positions of the cardiac anatomical structures, is suitable for arrhythmia such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrial velocity, ventricular premature, ventricular velocity and the like originated from pulmonary veins or non-pulmonary veins, and has the defects of long ablation operation time, high requirement on the catheter operation level of an operator, pain during ablation due to thermal injury and easy pulmonary vein stenosis generation after operation. Application of radio frequency energy to target tissue has an effect on non-target tissue, application of radio frequency energy to atrial wall tissue may cause esophageal or phrenic nerve damage, and in addition radio frequency ablation has a risk of tissue scarring, further leading to embolization problems. And in the cryoablation, if the cryoballoon is tightly attached to the pulmonary vein, the annular ablation isolation can be completed once or several times, so that a patient does not feel pain and the operation time is shortened, but the damage rate of the cryoablation on the phrenic nerve is higher, and the method cannot timely confirm whether the ablation isolation is successfully completed, and the epicardial freezing near the coronary artery possibly causes thrombosis and progressive coronary artery stenosis.
Today, pulsed electric field technology is emerging, which applies brief high voltages to tissue cells, and can generate local high electric fields of several hundred volts per centimeter; the local high electric field disrupts the cell membrane by creating pores in the cell membrane where the applied electric field is above the cell threshold such that the pores do not close, and such electroporation is irreversible, thereby allowing biomolecular material to exchange across the membrane, resulting in cell necrosis or apoptosis. The irreversible electroporation of pulse is different from the physical therapy based on the principle of thermal ablation, such as radio frequency, refrigeration, microwave, ultrasound, etc., and the irreversible electroporation damage of microsecond pulse to the myocardial cell membrane is a non-thermal biological effect and can effectively avoid the damage of blood vessels, nerves and other tissues. Because different tissue cells have different threshold values for voltage penetration, the high-voltage pulse technology can be used for selectively treating the myocardial cells (the threshold value is relatively low) without influencing other non-target cell tissues (such as nerves, blood vessels and blood cells), and meanwhile, because the time for releasing energy is extremely short, the pulse technology cannot generate heat effect, so that the problems of tissue scabbing, pulmonary vein stenosis and the like are avoided.
In a similar technology, for example, chinese patent application publication No. CNCN 111248993 a, an irreversible electroporation (IRE) balloon catheter "with a membrane-insulated high-voltage balloon wire is disclosed. A medical probe is provided that includes a shaft and an inflatable balloon. The shaft is configured for insertion into an organ of a patient. The inflatable balloon is coupled to the distal end of the shaft, wherein the inflatable balloon comprises: (a) an inflatable membrane having an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inflatable membrane is configured to be inflated from a collapsed shape to a balloon-forming member, (b) a plurality of electrodes disposed on the outer surface of the inflatable membrane, (c) one or more wires connected to the plurality of electrodes, the wires extending from the distal end to the electrodes, (d) and an inflatable cover that encapsulates the wires between the inflatable cover and the inflatable membrane such that the wires are constrained between the cover and the inflatable membrane, but the electrodes are exposed to a surrounding environment.
The utility model patent application assembles an inflatable balloon by assembling an inflatable membrane having an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inflatable membrane is configured to be inflated from a collapsed shape into a balloon forming member. A plurality of electrodes is disposed on an outer surface of the inflatable membrane. The wires are connected to a plurality of electrodes, and an expandable cover is used to encapsulate the wires between the cover and the expandable membrane such that the wires are constrained between the cover and the expandable membrane, but the electrodes are exposed to the surrounding environment. An inflatable balloon is coupled to the distal end of the shaft. That is, since the wire cannot be directly introduced into the human tissue, the wire is covered with the expandable covering member and the electrode portion is leaked out to perform the impulse ablation operation, but there are disadvantages as follows: 1. the electrodes on the balloon are bonded on the surface of the balloon, and deformation and uneven spacing can be generated in the process of balloon expansion, so that the ablation effect is influenced. 2. The shape of the balloon and the position of the electrodes are not good for eliminating thrombus generated by atrial fibrillation. 3. The balloon and the annular gap of the inflatable covering piece are connected by glue, and the balloon needs to be folded and inflated and has certain pressure, so that the glue is easy to fall off, leak and the like. The hidden danger is very big on the instrument for interventional therapy of human body.
Chinese patent application publication No. CN 110662483A, discloses a system, device and method for electroporation ablation therapy, wherein the device includes a set of splines coupled to a catheter for medical ablation therapy. Each spline of the set of splines may include a set of electrodes formed on the spline. The set of splines may be configured for translation to transition between a first configuration and a second configuration. Each spline of the set of splines in the second configuration may be petal-shaped.
The ablation device of this patent application may contain one or more catheters, guidewires, balloons, and electrodes. The ablation device can be converted to different configurations (e.g., compact and expanded) that can be transformed into two states by controlling the retraction and retraction of the catheter guidewire. However, in the actual use process, the in-place property of the shape is difficult to control in the in-vivo switching process of the technology, the orientation and the angle of the electrode cannot be guaranteed, and in use, one ablation part needs to be rotated for multiple times to avoid incomplete ablation and ablation omission. However, the following disadvantages still exist in this technique: 1. in the operation process, because the conditions in the heart and the blood vessel are relatively complex, the state of the electrodes formed by the technology is uncertain, the effective and accurate ablation is difficult, and the angle and the position can only be changed by repeatedly rotating, so the ablation effect is greatly reduced. 2. As the heart is continuously contracted and expanded, the petal-shaped structure can be influenced, and the ablation effect is further reduced.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims to solve the technical problem of providing a balloon catheter device with a flexible electrode, which has the advantages of reasonable structural design, better adhesion with endocardium tissues, reasonable ablation range and angle, good ablation pertinence, stable ablation effect and convenient operation.
The utility model solves the technical problem by adopting the technical scheme that the balloon catheter device with the flexible electrode comprises a handle, a lead, a pulse generating circuit and a surgical control device, and is also provided with an expansion device at a working end, and the balloon catheter device is structurally characterized in that the expansion device comprises the following components:
A. a catheter shaft located at a front end of the working end for insertion into an organ lesion of a patient, the catheter shaft being retractable in length;
B. a balloon, wherein the balloon is closely wrapped on the outer side of the catheter shaft, and the front end of the balloon is flat after being inflated;
C. the flexible base materials radially cover the outer surface of the balloon and are uniformly arranged;
D. and the flexible electrode is arranged on the upper surface of the flexible base material, is connected with the pulse generating circuit and is used for generating electric pulses for ablating pathological tissues.
The flexible electrode has the bearing and the fixing of flexible substrate, has reduced because the sacculus warp the influence to flexible electrode stability, and the rigidity is firm simultaneously, and the flat sacculus shape of cooperation front end has formed stable front end and side ablation district. The ablation effect is stable and reliable, and the directivity is obvious.
The arrangement of the catheter shaft ensures the shape of the saccule, is more suitable for the pathological changes of the heart and related blood vessels, is more beneficial to the work of the guide wire and can reach the affected part more effectively.
The arrangement of the catheter shaft also enables the expansion degree and the process of the saccule to be more controllable, the shape of the saccule is better kept, and therefore the expansion and the positioning work of the affected part are more reliable in the actual use process.
Furthermore, the pulse generator is provided with a covering material, the covering material is arranged above the flexible electrode, the covering material and the flexible base material partially wrap the flexible electrode together, and the leaked flexible electrode forms a pulse working part.
The covering material is made of a biocompatible, non-conductive material, for example a plastic, a coating material such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polyimide (PI), or Parylene.
The application of the covering material further fixes the flexible electrode, reduces the influence on the stability of the flexible electrode due to the deformation of the balloon, has firmer position, and plays a role in highlighting the ablation working area, so that the ablation area is more controllable and has outstanding effect. Covering materials can be arranged on one flexible electrode in a segmented mode, so that an ablation area formed between the electrodes is more flexible and variable.
Furthermore, the number of the flexible electrodes is 3-16, and the size and the shape of the balloon after being inflated are matched with the size and the shape of the pulmonary vein orifice or the atrial wall.
The shape of the balloon matches the design of the upper catheter shaft, and the front end is flat after inflation, somewhat resembling the shape of a pumpkin, in order to allow a larger ablation area to be formed at the front end, while allowing an ablation area to be formed at the side. Better eliminates the focus of atrial fibrillation.
Further, the catheter shaft of the utility model is composed of a first catheter and a second catheter, the second catheter is coaxially arranged in the first catheter, the distal end of the second catheter is provided with a soft catheter head, and the balloon is respectively connected with the soft catheter head and the edge of the first catheter.
The mutually nested catheter shaft design ingeniously controls the expansion shape of the balloon, and meanwhile, the balloon can reach the focus of the heart more conveniently by matching with the soft head of the catheter, and the ablation area of the balloon can be finely adjusted in the use process, so that a better ablation effect is achieved.
Furthermore, the second guide pipe is connected with a second guide pipe sliding adjusting block, the second guide pipe sliding adjusting block is arranged in the handle, a locking ring is further arranged in the handle, and the locking ring is clamped at the groove of the second guide pipe sliding adjusting block and used for limiting the second guide pipe, so that the extending length of the second guide pipe is controlled.
Similarly, the limiting device can form a stable shape after reaching the ablation area and the balloon is expanded in place, and is not easy to deform after limiting, thereby being more beneficial to operation.
Furthermore, each flexible electrode is respectively connected with an independently controlled pulse generating circuit through different leads.
By matching with the sectional design of the covering material and the application of a plurality of flexible electrodes, different ablation ranges can be flexibly formed so as to meet the actual requirements of the operation.
Further, a base material table board is arranged below the flexible base material, and the height of the base material table board is 1-5 mm.
The material of the base material table top is the same as that of the flexible base material, or the base material table top and the balloon are integrally arranged, and the base material table top is made of a biocompatible material, such as polyethylene terephthalate and polyimide. The base material mesa has heightened flexible electrode on flexible base material's basis because in the in-service use process, the gap between the flexible electrode may be filled up to pathological change tissue, influences the effect of melting, can hinder the unobstructed of blood flow moreover. The blood flowing speed in the heart is high and is not stopped at all, if the blood flowing is not smooth, great negative effects can be generated, and the smooth operation is influenced.
Furthermore, two layers of electrodes are arranged above the covering material, the structure of the two layers of electrodes is the same as that of the flexible electrode, two layers of covering materials are covered on the upper portion of the two layers of electrodes, and the leaking portion of the two layers of electrodes and the leaking portion of the flexible electrode are mutually spaced.
The arrangement is designed to arrange the ablation area more flexibly, and the polarity possibility of the ablation electrode is increased, so that better operation effect is achieved. And even three-layer and four-layer designs can be added on the basis of two layers.
Furthermore, the leakage parts of the two-layer electrode and the leakage parts of the flexible electrode are respectively positioned at the front end and the side surface of the balloon after the balloon is inflated, and the polarities of the electrodes which are axially adjacent or radially adjacent are opposite.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following advantages and effects:
1. the arrangement of the catheter shaft ensures the shape of the saccule, is more suitable for the pathological changes of the heart and related blood vessels, is more beneficial to the work of the guide wire and can reach the affected part more effectively. The design of the catheter shafts nested with each other ingeniously controls the expansion shape of the balloon, and meanwhile, the catheter soft head is matched, so that the heart focus can be reached more conveniently, the ablation area of the balloon can be finely adjusted in the using process, a better ablation effect is achieved, the expansion degree and the process of the balloon are more controllable, the shape of the balloon is better maintained, and the expansion and positioning work of an affected part is more reliable in the actual using process. The flexible circuit at the distal end of the catheter shaft extends from the balloon surface to the catheter shaft, and the design ensures that the whole balloon surface and the catheter surface are smooth in transition, avoids the unevenness of connection between a lead and an electrode, and cannot cause mechanical damage to blood vessels and endocardium.
2. The shape of the balloon matches the design of the upper catheter shaft, and the front end is flat after inflation, somewhat resembling the shape of a pumpkin, in order to allow a larger ablation area to be formed at the front end, while allowing an ablation area to be formed at the side. Better eliminates the focus of atrial fibrillation. The design of the balloon and the flexible circuit provides flexible, noninvasive and sufficient electrode fitting to the endocardium, and the electric pulse energy is safely and effectively delivered to a specific target area.
3. The flexible electrode has the bearing and the fixing of flexible substrate, has reduced because the sacculus warp the influence to flexible electrode stability, and the rigidity is firm simultaneously, and the flat sacculus shape of cooperation front end has formed stable front end and side ablation district. The ablation effect is stable and reliable, and the directivity is obvious. The profile design of the balloon and the arrangement design of the flexible electrodes enable the flexible electrodes to be well attached to and ablated on the pulmonary vein opening and tissues and enable the flexible electrodes to be attached to and ablated on arc-shaped tissue walls such as the rear wall of the left atrium. Directly reach the focus.
4. The flexible electrode polarity is designed flexibly, the leaked flexible electrodes are covered in a segmented mode, the ablation area is set more flexibly by matching the number and the positions of the flexible electrodes, the polarity possibility of the ablation electrodes is increased, and therefore a better operation effect is achieved. Even the design of three layers and four layers can be added on the basis of two layers, so that the ablation range and the work control are more flexible.
5. The integral electrical signal is routed from within the catheter shaft to near the distal end of the balloon surface by the flexible circuit, which avoids the problem of easy disconnection using wires and electrode connections.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of embodiment 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view showing a catheter shaft according to example 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a balloon according to example 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is another angle structure diagram of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a schematic sectional view of the direction A in FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the operation of the pulmonary vein ostium;
FIG. 7 is a schematic representation of atrial wall operation;
FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of the balloon of example 2;
FIG. 9 is another angular configuration of FIG. 8;
FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a covering material and a flexible electrode according to example 2;
FIG. 11 is another schematic view of the covering material and the flexible electrode according to example 2;
FIG. 12 is a schematic illustration of a simulation of an ablation zone of example 2;
FIG. 13 is another schematic simulation of an ablation region according to example 2;
fig. 14 is a schematic view of the structure of the balloon of example 3;
fig. 15 is a schematic view of the balloon structure of example 4.
Description of reference numerals: catheter shaft 1, balloon 2, flexible electrode 3, first catheter 11, second catheter 12, fluid tube 14, guide wire 15, guide wire lumen 16, guide wire lumen 17, catheter 18, balloon proximal end 21, balloon distal end 22, substrate table 23, flexible substrate 31, conductive layer 32, covering material 33, two-layer electrode 34, two-layer covering material 35, two-layer substrate 36, handle 41, catheter bi-directional bending ring 42, second catheter sliding adjustment block 43, locking ring 44, groove 45.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples, which are illustrative of the present invention and are not to be construed as being limited thereto.
Example 1: as shown in fig. 1 to 7, the present embodiment describes a balloon catheter device having a flexible electrode. The structure is that the embodiment is composed of a handle 41, a catheter bidirectional adjusting ring 42, a second catheter sliding adjusting block 43, a locking ring 44, a catheter shaft 1, a saccule 2, a flexible electrode 3 and a catheter 18.
The leading end of the catheter 18 forms a catheter shaft 1, the catheter shaft 1 and the inflatable balloon 2, and a medical probe comprised of a plurality of flexible circuits. The catheter shaft 1 comprises a first catheter tube 11 and a second catheter tube 12, the second catheter tube 12 being within the lumen of the first catheter tube, the distal end of the second catheter tube 12 extending a distance beyond the distal end of the first catheter tube 11, the second catheter tube 12 being axially movable within the first catheter tube 11. The balloon proximal end 21 and the balloon distal end 22 of the balloon 2 are connected to the catheter soft head 13 at the distal end of the first catheter 11 and the distal end of the second catheter 12, respectively. The balloon 2 has two states, a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration.
The balloon 2 has an outer surface with a plurality of flexible circuits thereon, which are distributed on the balloon 2 at equal intervals in a circle (or in a regular pattern according to the needs of the treatment). Each flexible circuit is composed of a flexible substrate 31 with an intermediate conductive layer 32 and an outer non-conductive cover material 33, wherein the side near the distal end of the catheter shaft 1 (i.e., the flat balloon leading end) is free of the non-conductive cover layer, which is exposed for external contact with the targeted ablation tissue. The shape of the outline of the balloon 2 determines the contact shape of the flexible electrode 3 and the tissue, and the outline of the balloon in the scheme of the embodiment is oblate (similar to the shape of pumpkin, and the front end is flat), so that the flexible electrode 3 can be attached to and ablated by the tissue of a pulmonary vein ostium and also can be attached to and ablated by arc-shaped tissue walls such as the rear wall of the left atrium and the like.
The handle 41, the guide tube bidirectional bending adjusting ring 42, the second guide tube sliding adjusting block 43, the groove 45 on the second guide tube sliding adjusting block 43 and the locking ring 44 jointly form a handle component. The catheter bidirectional bending adjusting ring 42 can realize leftward or rightward bending of the sacculus 2 at the far end of the catheter shaft 1 through left-right rotation, and accurate positioning of the sacculus 2, the flexible electrode 3 and tissue attachment is adjusted. Wherein the second catheter sliding adjustment block 43 pulls the second catheter 12 axially within the lumen of the first catheter 11; before the balloon 2 is expanded from the collapsed state to the shaped member, the second catheter sliding adjustment block 43 is pulled, causing the locking ring 44 to thread into the groove 45.
When the treatment is carried out, the medical probe comprising the catheter shaft 1, the inflatable balloon 2 and a plurality of flexible circuits is firstly in a contracted state. The inner cavity of the second catheter 12 is a guide wire cavity 17, and the balloon 2 is inserted into the blood vessel along a guide wire along the guide wire cavity 17 to reach a heart target ablation area during operation. The catheter shaft 1 at the leading end is configured for coupling the inflatable balloon 2 to the distal end of a catheter 18, the balloon 2 being capable of entering and withdrawing blood vessels and the heart through a vascular sheath for insertion into a body, there being a fluid line 14 between the first catheter tube 11 and the second catheter tube 12 after the catheter shaft 1 and balloon 2 have been introduced into a particular heart site for the purpose of introducing fluid (which may be a gas or a liquid) into the balloon during surgery. The balloon 2 is inflated from the collapsed state to a balloon-forming member. The first catheter 11 has a guide wire cavity 16, and at least two guide wires 15 are arranged in the cavity and are respectively connected with the flexible electrode 3. Electrical pulses are generated between the flexible electrodes 3, and the polarity of each flexible electrode 3 is controlled to control the area of pulse ablation, as required by the treatment.
In the present embodiment, the material of the balloon 2 is made of a biocompatible material, for example, formed of a plastic such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyurethane, or PEBAX. The flexible substrate 31 of the flexible circuit is made of a biocompatible material, for example a plastic, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polyimide (PI). The conductive layer 32 of the flex circuit is deposited from a suitable metal, including gold, titanium, copper, etc., by sputtering, electroplating or electroless plating. The non-conductive cover material 33 of the flex circuit is made of a biocompatible material, such as a plastic, a coating material such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Polyimide (PI), or Parylene.
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this embodiment is different from embodiment 1 in that, as shown in fig. 8 to 11, a plurality of flexible electrodes 3 are provided on the outer surface of the balloon 2, and each flexible electrode 3 is composed of a double-layer conductive structure. Including a flexible substrate 31 at the bottom, a conductive layer 32 at the second layer, a two-layer substrate 36 at the third layer, a two-layer electrode 34 at the fourth layer, and a two-layer covering material 35 at the outer layer, wherein both the conductive layer 32 and the two-layer electrode 34 are exposed on the side near the distal end of the catheter shaft 1 and are in contact with the targeted ablation tissue. The present embodiment can achieve annular ablation zones and circular ablation zones, respectively, and complete ablation of the entire hemispherical surface can be achieved if the ablation zones are superimposed. (ablation regions are shown in FIGS. 12 and 13)
Example 3:
as shown in fig. 14, this embodiment is substantially the same as embodiment 1, and differs from embodiment 1 in that: a plurality of convex ridges, namely a substrate table 23, are added on the balloon 2, and the flexible substrate 31 and the flexible electrode 3 are sequentially attached on the substrate table 23, but the flexible electrode 3 can also be directly attached.
Because the table top is heightened, when an operation is carried out, each flexible electrode 3 can be attached to the tissue more tightly, the surface of the tissue in the atrium is not smooth, various concave-convex structures exist, and the structure of the base material table top 23 added on the surface of the balloon 2 can avoid discontinuous ablation caused by concave-convex of the tissue. Meanwhile, the structure of the base material table top 23 can ensure that the flexible electrode 3 and the tissue are attached more tightly, and meanwhile, blood flow can pass through when the saccule 3 is attached to the pulmonary vein opening, so that blood supply blockage by the blood flow is avoided.
Example 4:
as shown in fig. 15, this embodiment is substantially the same as embodiment 2, and differs from embodiment 2 in that: a plurality of raised ridges, namely substrate mesas 23, are added to the balloon 2, the structure of the substrate mesas 23 being the same as that applied in example 3.
In addition, it should be noted that the specific embodiments described in the present specification may differ in the shape of the components, the names of the components, and the like. All equivalent or simple changes of the structure, the characteristics and the principle of the utility model which are described in the patent conception of the utility model are included in the protection scope of the patent of the utility model. Various modifications, additions and substitutions for the specific embodiments described may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the utility model as defined in the accompanying claims.
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1. A balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes, the device comprising a handle, a guidewire, a pulse generating circuit and a surgical control device, and further being provided with an inflation device at a working end, characterized in that the inflation device comprises the following components:
A. a catheter shaft at a front end of the working end for insertion into a lesion site of an organ of a patient, the catheter shaft being retractable in length;
B. a balloon, wherein the balloon is closely wrapped on the outer side of the catheter shaft, and the front end of the balloon is flat after being inflated;
C. the flexible base materials radially cover the outer surface of the balloon and are uniformly arranged;
D. and the flexible electrode is arranged on the upper surface of the flexible base material, is connected with the pulse generating circuit and is used for generating electric pulses for ablating pathological tissues.
2. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 1, wherein: the flexible electrode is provided with a covering material, the covering material is arranged above the flexible electrode, the covering material and the flexible base material partially wrap the flexible electrode together, and the leaked flexible electrode forms a pulse working part.
3. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 2, wherein: the number of the flexible electrodes is 3-16, and the size and the shape of the balloon after being inflated are matched with those of the pulmonary vein opening or the atrial wall.
4. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 2, wherein: the catheter shaft consists of a first catheter and a second catheter, the second catheter is coaxially arranged in the first catheter, a soft catheter head is arranged at the far end of the second catheter, and the balloon is respectively connected with the soft catheter head and the edge of the first catheter.
5. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 4, wherein: the second guide pipe is connected with a second guide pipe sliding adjusting block, the second guide pipe sliding adjusting block is arranged in the handle, a locking ring is further arranged in the handle, and the locking ring is clamped in a groove of the second guide pipe sliding adjusting block and used for limiting the second guide pipe, so that the extending length of the second guide pipe is controlled.
6. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 4, wherein: each flexible electrode is respectively connected with the independently controlled pulse generating circuit through different leads.
7. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 2, wherein: a base material table board is arranged below the flexible base material, and the height of the base material table board is 1-5 mm.
8. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes according to any one of claims 2-7, wherein: two layers of electrodes are arranged above the covering material, the structure of the two layers of electrodes is the same as that of the flexible electrode, two layers of covering material are covered on the upper portion of the two layers of electrodes, and the leaking portion of the two layers of electrodes and the leaking portion of the flexible electrode are mutually spaced.
9. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 8, wherein: the leakage parts of the two layers of electrodes and the leakage parts of the flexible electrodes are respectively positioned at the front end and the side surface of the balloon after expansion, and the polarities of the electrodes which are axially adjacent or radially adjacent are opposite.
10. The balloon catheter device with flexible electrodes of claim 7, wherein: the material of the base material mesa be the same with flexible base material, perhaps base material mesa and sacculus integration setting, the base material mesa adopts polyethylene terephthalate or polyimide.
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