CAROTID BODY ABLATION VIA DIRECTED ENERGY

摘要

Methods and 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.

主权项

1. A system for endovascular ultrasound ablation comprising:
an ultrasound imaging device; an endovascular ultrasound treatment catheter; and a control unit, wherein the endovascular ultrasound treatment catheter is configured to emit an ultrasound pulse having a pulse repetition frequency that is a harmonic of a pulse repetition frequency of an ultrasound pulse emitted from the external ultrasound imaging probe such that the region of tissue receiving the ultrasound pulse emitted by the treatment catheter is distinguished from the surrounding tissue on a sonogram.