US 12,390,188 B2
Device for intra-cardiac and intra-vascular surgical procedure having an endoluminal ultrasound probe
Nelson Jorge Teixeira Dos Santos Paulo, Arcozelo VNG (PT)
Appl. No. 15/565,301
Filed by Nelson Jorge Teixeira Dos Santos Paulo, Arcozelo VNG (PT)
PCT Filed Apr. 13, 2016, PCT No. PCT/IB2016/052106
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 9, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/166681, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 20, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 108357 (PT), filed on Apr. 13, 2015; and application No. 108996 (PT), filed on Nov. 30, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2018/0055347 A1, Mar. 1, 2018
Int. Cl. A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/12 (2013.01) [A61B 8/445 (2013.01); A61B 8/4494 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); A61B 8/467 (2013.01); A61B 8/52 (2013.01); A61B 17/3421 (2013.01); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00292 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00314 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00323 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0034 (2013.01); A61B 2090/3782 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3784 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for an intra-cardiac and intra-vascular surgical procedure comprising a surgical endoluminal ultrasound probe, said probe comprising:
a flexible tube having a longitudinal hollow along a longitudinal axis of the flexible tube which defines a working channel for receiving and guiding transcatheter devices or instruments for the intra-cardiac and intra-vascular surgical procedure,
a hatch door having a hinge, and
an ultrasonic transducer for capture of data processable into three-dimensional (3D) images,
an embedded motor cable operatively connected for opening or closing the hinge of the hatch door,
a sequential arrangement of a plurality of ring-shaped units along a distal part of the flexible tube, wherein the embedded motor cable has an end attached to the most distal ring-shaped unit,
wherein the flexible tube has a working channel outlet on a distal end of the flexible tube,
wherein the hatch door is hingedly coupled to the distal end of the flexible tube by the hinge for opening and closing the working channel outlet, wherein the hinge rotates the hatch door 180° about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the flexible tube between closed and open positions,
wherein the ultrasonic transducer is placed at a forward-facing part of the hatch door and is positionable so as to be displaced laterally in respect of a line of sight defined by the working channel, within confines of intra-cardiac and intra-vascular locations in which the flexible tube is disposable in order to improve the viewing angle, reduce ultrasonic shadows and spurious reflections.