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WO1994026341A1
WO1994026341A1 PCT/US1994/005312 US9405312W WO9426341A1 WO 1994026341 A1 WO1994026341 A1 WO 1994026341A1 US 9405312 W US9405312 W US 9405312W WO 9426341 A1 WO9426341 A1 WO 9426341A1
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Gene Samson
Erik T. Engelson
Uriel Hiram Chee
Robert E. Woodard
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Target Therapeutics, Inc.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/0067—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by the distal end, e.g. tips
    • A61M25/008—Strength or flexibility characteristics of the catheter tip
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/0043—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by structural features
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/0043—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by structural features
    • A61M25/005—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by structural features with embedded materials for reinforcement, e.g. wires, coils, braids
    • A61M25/0053—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by structural features with embedded materials for reinforcement, e.g. wires, coils, braids having a variable stiffness along the longitudinal axis, e.g. by varying the pitch of the coil or braid
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/0067—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by the distal end, e.g. tips
    • A61M25/0068—Static characteristics of the catheter tip, e.g. shape, atraumatic tip, curved tip or tip structure
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/0043—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by structural features
    • A61M2025/0057—Catheters delivering medicament other than through a conventional lumen, e.g. porous walls or hydrogel coatings
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/0067—Catheters; Hollow probes characterised by the distal end, e.g. tips
    • A61M25/0068—Static characteristics of the catheter tip, e.g. shape, atraumatic tip, curved tip or tip structure
    • A61M2025/0073—Tip designed for influencing the flow or the flow velocity of the fluid, e.g. inserts for twisted or vortex flow
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
    • A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
    • A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
    • A61M25/09—Guide wires

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  • This invention is a surgical instrument. Specifically, the invention includes a catheter for treating a target site within the body where the target site is accessible through a passageway in the body by delivering a controlled amount of a
  • the invention is the perfusion tip assembly on the perfusion catheter and a process of using the catheter and its perfusion tip to deliver fluids to the selected body site.
  • Catheters are used as a means for delivering diagnostic or therapeutic agents to target sites within the human body that may be accessed through the circulatory system or through other systemic
  • catheters may be used to deliver a radio-opaque agent to a target site within a blood vessel to allow
  • catheters are used to deliver a
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,739,768 describes a catheter having a guide wire.
  • the catheter may be guided from an external body access site such as through the femoral artery, to an internal tissue site.
  • the catheter progresses through a tortuous path of at least about 5 cm through vessels of less than about 3 mm inner diameter.
  • the catheter has a
  • the guide wire and catheter are moved as a unit to a position adjacent the target tissue.
  • the wire is then advanced ahead of the catheter along the tortuous path within the tissue.
  • the catheter then tracks the wire to move along the wire's path. Once the tip of the catheter reaches the chosen site, the guide wire is removed and the selected treatment or diagnostic fluid is
  • small amounts of the agent desirably would be delivered at a low rate equally over a substantial distance within the tumor.
  • the fluid is delivered from the catheter lumen into the vasculature using a set of sideholes in the tip. These sideholes are of a varying size.
  • Miller et al. shows a ventricular catheter having a distal portion which is reasonably porous.
  • the porous portion is generally formed by extruding a fiber forming polymer and winding it directly onto a
  • the resulting porous portion is made up of several layers of filament but cannot be characterized as being woven.
  • the porous tip is used as a drain for removing excess cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) from a ventricle of the brain.
  • CSF cerebral spinal fluid
  • the CSF is drained via a nonporous tubing into a vein terminating in the right atrium of the heart.
  • the tubes then carry the excess CSF from the cerebral ventricles to other areas in the body.
  • Bonello et al. having a coil placed on the end of a catheter assembly through which various fluids may be introduced into the body; and 4,953,553, issued
  • the present invention is a catheter assembly useful for the delivery of diagnostic or therapeutic agents to regions of the human body often accessible through systems of passageways, e.g., the vasculature and genito-urinary system. In particular, it may be used to diagnose or to treat intravascular occlusions that result from embolus or thrombus formation.
  • the invention also includes a process for delivering fluids to those regions by use of the inventive catheter and perfusion tip.
  • This invention is a catheter both for use in combination with a guide wire for placement within a tortuous, small vessel and also for delivery of fluid at a select target site within the vasculature or other system of lumen within the human body.
  • the catheter has an elongate tubular body having proximal and distal ends and a lumen extending between the ends containing the guide wire.
  • the tubular body also has a flexible perfusion tip located at the remote or distal end for tracking the wire along the tortuous path, through small vessels to a target site and for delivery of fluid at the target site.
  • the structure of the flexible perfusion tip also forms a portion of their invention.
  • a further aspect of the invention is a method for delivering a controlled amount of a
  • the method involves the placement of a catheter at a remote site in the vasculature and the delivery of the agent through that flexible inventive tip.
  • Figure 1 shows a catheter with a coil tip constructed according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 shows a side view (partial cutaway) of the inventive distal fluid delivery segment in which the stiffener is a coil and the perfuser is woven tubing having spaced omission orifices within the wall of that tubing.
  • Figure 3 shows a side view (partial cutaway) of a variation of the perfusion tip shown in Figure 2 having multiple sections of porosity.
  • Figure 4 shows a side view (partial cutaway) of a distal fluid delivery segment in which the stiffener is polymeric tubing and the perfuser is a helical coil.
  • Figure 5 shows a side view (partial cutaway) of another variation of the distal fluid delivery segment in which the stiffener is a tubing having orifices cut in its wall and the perfuser is a helical coil.
  • Figure 6 shows a side view (partial cutaway) of a distal segment fluid delivery section in which the stiffener is a braided tubing and the perfuser is a similar braided tubing having certain filaments omitted to provide fluid ports.
  • Figure 7 is a side view (partial cutaway) of a variation of the distal fluid delivery section in which the stiffener a braided tubing and the perfuser is a helical coil.
  • the invention has a core or guide wire and an elongate tubular body.
  • the elongate tubular body in the catheter assembly typically is made up of multiple segments to assure both that the catheter has
  • the distal segment often is much more flexible so that the catheter can more easily track the wire along the tortuous vessel pathway.
  • the distal flexible segment also includes at least one flexible perfusion section which allows a controllable flow of fluid to a selected target site within the chosen vessel.
  • the inventive perfusion tip is made of a material that is biologically compatible and, optionally, may be visible when exposed to x-ray.
  • the perfusion tip is constructed in such a way that fluids introduced into the catheter at the proximal end perfuse out of openings in the tip.
  • the tip is made up of two major components: an inner stiffener portion which is relatively porous and an outer perfuser layer which desirably controls fluid flow to a relatively lower rate.
  • the tip inner stiffener may be in the form of a coil wound from wire or ribbon, a braid, or other appropriate configurations such as perforated micropiping.
  • the perfuser layer may be a coil, a braid, but most preferably is a braided tube in which selected filaments have been removed.
  • Figure 1 shows one embodiment of a catheter assembly made according to the invention.
  • catheter assembly generally designated (100)
  • the assembly may include a standard proximal end fitting (102) having a side or infusion port (106) and a guidewire port (104). Through the axial center of the proximal end fitting (102) may be found a guidewire port (104) through which the
  • a catheter body (108) which axially lines up with the guidewire port (104) in the proximal end fitting (102).
  • the catheter body is a tubular body that extends distally to the perfusion tip (110) which is discussed in more detail below.
  • the catheter body may be of a variety of suitable shapes and lengths, depending upon the service to which it is placed, but generally it is desired that a two or three segment catheter body construction be used. Such a catheter construction is shown in U.S. Patent 4,739,768, to Engelson. This construction provides that the most proximate portion of the catheter body is the most stiff and the middle portion, if a middle portion having sufficient characteristics is selected, is somewhat more flexible.
  • the most distal portion near the perfusion tip (110) is the most flexible. In this way, the catheter assembly may be maneuvered using a guidewire into very tight portions of the body's vasculature.
  • the Engelson patent provides details on the manner of construction of such a catheter body and its use in traversing the human body.
  • FIG. 1 The most distal section found in Figure 1 is a very desirable variation of the perfusion tip made according to this invention.
  • This perfusion tip is shown in Figure 2 in greater detail and is made of a filamentary outer braid or perfuser (112) from which certain filaments have been removed from the regularly spaced braid to provide what we term "regularly spaced omission orifices" (114) which definition is discussed below.
  • Supporting the dacron filament braid (112) within the closed portion of the catheter body is a secondary coil (116).
  • the secondary coil (116) merely serves to provide support for the inside of the tubing used as the catheter body (108).
  • the spaced omission orifices (114) and their surrounding braided area are supported by a main coil (118).
  • Main coil (118) has the function of supporting the braid and allowing fluid within to pass to the braid and thence out into the space beyond the braid.
  • the inner stiffener for this variation and the others discussed below each allow a significant higher liquid flow rate than the surrounding perfuser covering it for a particular pressure differential. Said another way, imposition of a specific pressure on the interior of the inner stiffener (without the center perfuser in place) will result in a significantly higher liquid flow rate (or "index flow rate") than will the exterior perfuser layer upon imposition of the same interior pressure.
  • the most distal end of the perfuser tip may be closed with a cap or other suitable device for closing the end of the coil. Where appropriate, however, the distal end of the perfuser tip may be left open to accommodate a guidewire.
  • the braid or perfuser (112) may extend past the distal end of the main coil (118).
  • a braided perfuser will taper to near closure within three to four diameters past the distal end of the main coil (118).
  • These various junctions may be glued together or otherwise suitably attached to each other.
  • the main coil (118) is screwed into the secondary coil (116).
  • Figure 3 shows a further variation having multiple perfuser sections (119) separated by a less porous section (121). The less porous section may be nonporous to the passage of fluid. Such a variation may be used to simultaneously treat multiple lesions or various thromboli within a single vessel.
  • the less porous section (121) may be a secondary coil as is shown in Figure 2 or may be a short section of polymeric tubing or other similar inserts placed within or without the perfusion section. Alternatively, a small portion of the braid may be treated to make it nonporous.
  • the braiding used in this invention is relatively straightforward to produce. Commercial machinery suitable for making braids of this small diameter are available. These desirably are made from dacron, silk, or other suitable biocompatible
  • One appropriate way of producing the woven tubing is one in which sixteen strands are interwoven or "regularly woven" to produce a sock-like
  • Figure 4 shows another variation of the inventive perfuser tip which may be used as (110) in Figure 1.
  • the stiffener (120) is a polyimide tube or other similar tube having a number of orifices or slits (122) therein.
  • a cap or closure (124) may be placed at the distal end of the perfuser tip.
  • the perfuser extend for several diameters past the end of the inner stiffener.
  • a perfuser coil (126) Placed on the outside of the stiffener (120) is a perfuser coil (126) which is wound in such a fashion as to control and equalize flow from the interior of the perfuser tip through slits (122) and out through coil (126).
  • Figure 5 is a further variation of the perfuser tip as might be found at (110) in Figure 1. Again, in this structure, (108) is the wall of the catheter leading to this perfuser tip. As was the structure with Figure 5, the inner stiffener (120) is of a suitable material, typically a polyimide, and contains slits (122), as did the device shown in
  • Figure 4 instead of the coils utilized as the fluid perfuser layer seen in Figure 3, this variation utilizes a braid (132), regularly wound, with or without the regularly spaced omission orifices.
  • Figure 6 depicts a variation of the
  • the inner stiffener is a braided tube of a reasonably stiff filament.
  • the filament may be made stiff by using a larger denier filament or by appropriate selection of the polymer making up the braided tube support layer (136).
  • the stiffener braid may also be metallic and woven from metallic wires such as platinum, stainless steel, and other suitable biocompatible metals.
  • the outer or perfuser covering (140) may be made in the same fashion as that shown in Figure 2. Desirably the outer perfuser covering utilizes the regularly spaced omission orifices.
  • the end of the perfuser tip may be capped at (124) or fused or otherwise closed in some known fashion but preferably is not closed to allow for quidewire use.
  • Figure 7 shows another variation in which the inner stiffener (136) is made in the same fashion as the stiffener found in Figure 6.
  • the perfuser is a perfuser coil (126) similar in construction to that shown in Figure 4.
  • Figures typically has an outer diameter of about 0.005 to 0.065 inches but preferably is about 0.020 to 0.045 inches.
  • the axial length of the tip will be normally between about 2 and 300 mm but preferably is between 5 and 100 mm in length.
  • the coils used in these tips are preferably of metal or an alloy such as stainless steel, platinum, platinum alloys (particularly
  • the wires used in the coils typically have a diameter between 0.001 and 0.010 inches.
  • the coils may be wound in such a way that the pitch is constant when used as a perfuser layer, it is also within the scope of this invention that the coils are wound with a variable pitch so as to provide areas of higher fluid flow.
  • the coil may be wound in such a way as to be either of a constant pitch or a variable pitch.
  • a constant pitch coil having openings between adjacent wires is often desirable from the point of ease of fluid flow.
  • variable pitched coils may be useful in those instances where the fluid to be provided to the vasculature is slightly viscous or additional spacing is required to allow ease of fluid flow from the inside of the catheter.
  • this fluid delivery device is used in much the same way as are others found in this service.
  • a guidewire is inserted into the lumen of the catheter body, such as that shown in Figure 1.
  • the guidewire will extend into the catheter body until it passes through the distal and at the perfusion tip where the tip is open or it abuts the most distal portion of perfusion tip (110) where the tip is closed.
  • the assembly is then guided through the vasculature to the target site.
  • the catheter body is guided over the guidewire to the target site.
  • the guidewire may, if the situation demands, be removed. Fluid is then injected through the various proximal end fittings (106) and into the catheter lumen.
  • the fluid perfuses out through the inner stiffener at the outer perfusion layer and into the target site at the desired rate.
  • the fluid may be a radiopaque agent, chemotherapeutic agent, a clot-dissolving agent, a vasoocclusive agent, or any fluid which is desirably delivered to that site.

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