LASER CATHETER FOR BYPASS SURGERY

摘要

The invention concerns an assembly for by-pass surgery. The assembly comprises a laser catheter. The laser catheter comprises: a tubular arrangement of optical fibres having distal ends defining a ring-shaped emitting surface arranged for emitting a tubular bundle of laser beams in a distal direction of the catheter; and a gripper for gripping tissue inside the tubular bundle of laser beams, having a gripping end defining the location where gripped tissue is held, the gripping end being arranged inside the tubular bundle and proximally from the emitting surface. The distance between the emitting surface and the gripping end is at least 1 mm.