Hung V. Ha,Ketan P. Muni,Andrew Nguyen,Siddhi K. Desai,Ronak Muni
申请号:
US14851022
公开号:
US10143591B2
申请日:
2015.09.11
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要:
A system and method for dilating a Eustachian tube of a patient is disclosed. The device includes a protective sheath, a flexible endoscope and a balloon dilation catheter. The protective sheath includes an endoscope lumen and a balloon dilation catheter lumen. The balloon of the balloon dilation catheter is a low profile balloon particularly useful for dilating the Eustachian tube, and in particular, the Eustachian tube of a pediatric patient. The method involves advancing the balloon dilation catheter through a nasal passage of the patient to dilate a portion of the Eustachian tube.