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Mark Gelfand0
Zoar Jacob Engelman0
Martin M. Grasse0
Howard Levin0
Mark S. Leung0
Date of Patent
August 2, 2016
0Patent Application Number
139088530
Date Filed
June 3, 2013
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
Methods and cryogenic devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via carotid body ablation. Some methods include advancing a cryo-ablation catheter into a patient's vasculature and ablating tissue within a carotid septum.
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