Hira V. Thapliyal,David A. Gallup,James W. Arenson
申请号:
US15654779
公开号:
US20170311973A1
申请日:
2017.07.20
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要:
A cardiac ablation method including the following steps: inserting a treatment catheter into an atrium of a heart, the treatment catheter including an ultrasound emitter; positioning the ultrasound emitter to face heart tissue within the left atrium outside of a pulmonary vein; emitting ultrasound energy from the ultrasound emitter while rotating the ultrasound emitter about a rotation axis; and ablating heart tissue with the ultrasound energy to form a lesion outside of a pulmonary vein.