The present invention relates to a combined cauterization and stent operation device, and more particularly, to a combined cauterization and stent operation device capable of reducing an occurrence risk of re-stricture at a lesion after a stent is operated, by cauterizing the lesion before or after the stent is operated while performing an operation of the stent on the lesion occurring in a body organ, in particular, a tubular tissue such as a blood vessel.
Generally, when a stricture, and the like occurs in a tubular tissue of a body such as a blood vessel, hematogenous disorder is caused or the tubular tissue is occluded, and thus in the worst case, it is likely to lead to the death In this case, the related art removes a lesion by a surgical operation and replaces a removed portion with an artificial construction and therefore has a problem in that a big scar remains in surgery areas, convalescence is required for a considerable period of time, and the like.
Recently, therefore, a non-surgical treatment method for performing a stent operation has been proposed. An example of the stent operation apparatus for performing a stent operation may include an apparatus 201 illustrated in
As illustrated, the stent operation apparatus 201 includes a fixed pipe 231 disposed therein and a moving pipe 233 inserted into an outer side thereof, and is configured to move a stent S charged between a front end of the fixed pipe 231 and the moving pipe 233.
To this end, as illustrated, the fixed pipe 231 has the front end provided with a streamlined guide tip 243, in which a front end just behind the guide tip 243 is provided with a stent sheet 241 for charging the stent S while the stent sheet 241 being diameter-reduced and a rear end thereof is provided with a fixed handle (not illustrated) for gripping. Further, as illustrated in
Therefore, when the stent operation apparatus 201 according to the related art intends to perform the stent S operation, first, as illustrated in
Next, when the moving pipe 233 is pulled in an arrow direction of
However, as illustrated in
To solve the above problem, a pre-operation cauterizing and necrotizing a lesion using a cauterization electrode apparatus is performed, and then the stent S operation is performed to prevent the above re-stricture. However, for this purpose, since a pre-operation of charging and removing an electrode needle of the cauterization into a blood vessel needs to be performed, efficiency of the operation such as an increase in a burden to a patient or an operator and an increase in operation cost due to the pre-operation may be reduced.
The present invention proposes to solve the foregoing problem, and an object of the present invention is to remove inefficiency of an operation due to repetitive performance of a pre-operation and a main operation while preventing a re-stricture from occurring at a lesion after a stent operation is performed, by allowing a single apparatus to perform the pre-operation cauterizing a lesion prior to performing the stent operation and the main operation performing the stent operation on a cauterized and necrotized lesion.
To achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a combined cauterization and stent operation device moving a stent to a lesion of a tubular tissue through a plurality of pipe members and performing a stent operation, including: a bipolar electrode for cauterization configured to be disposed at an operation end of the pipe member to cauterize the lesion; and a high frequency generator configured to be connected to the bipolar electrode for cauterization to allow the bipolar electrode for cauterization radiate a high frequency current.
The pipe member may include: a fixed pipe configured to have one end attached with a fixed handle for gripping and the other end provided with a stent sheet for seating a stent; and at least one moving pipe configured to have one end attached with a moving handle for gripping and be movably inserted longitudinally into an outer peripheral surface of the fixed pipe to charge the stent in the fixed pipe in a compressed state in the stent sheet, in which the bipolar electrode for cauterization is disposed at one side of an operation end corresponding to the fixed or moving handle of the fixed pipe or the moving pipe.
The moving pipe may further include a temperature sensor installed at a portion where the cauterization is performed by the bipolar electrode for cauterization to monitor a temperature of a tissue before cauterization, during cauterization, or after cauterization.
The bipolar electrode for cauterization may be configured of at least one pair of active electrode and passive electrode spaced apart from each other with at least one insulating gap.
The pair of active electrode and passive electrode may have a symmetrical structure, having the same surface area.
The pair of active electrode and passive electrode may have an asymmetrical structure, having different surface areas.
The outer peripheral surface of the fixed pipe or the moving pipe corresponding to the insulating gap may be provided with an insulating part.
The bipolar electrode for cauterization may include: an active electrode configured to be wound around one side of the outer peripheral surface of the fixed pipe or the moving pipe in a spiral form in plural times; and a passive electrode configured to be wound around one side of the outer peripheral surface of the fixed pipe or the moving pipe through the active electrode in plural times.
The active electrode and the passive electrode may be wound on an outer peripheral surface of the body at a constant alternating gap therebetween.
The active electrode body or the passive electrode body may each include continuously overlapping concentration parts without any one thereof alternating with the other one electrode and the concentration part may be wound around the outer peripheral surface of the body at a denser gap than the alternating gap of the electrode bodies or gapless.
The insulating gap may be formed between the concentration part of the any one electrode and the concentration part of the other electrode.
The outer peripheral surface of the body corresponding to the insulating gap may be provided with an insulating part.
In the bipolar electrode for cauterization, a lead wire continued to the high frequency generator through the moving handle may be formed as extending wires of the active electrode and the passive electrode and the lead wire may be finished so as not to be exposed to the outside by a coating part coated on the moving pipe.
Hereinafter, a combined cauterization and stent operation device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
A stent operation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention moves a stent S to a lesion of a tubular tissue such as a blood vessel V and performs the stent S operation and as illustrated in
First, the pipe member 3 which is a hollow or solid tubular member forming a body of the stent operation apparatus 1 is confirmed of a plurality of pipes 31 and 33 to have the stent S mounted therein and move the stent S into a tubular tissue such as a blood vessel V. The shape, number, or the like of pipes 31 and 33 may be variously changed depending on a usage or a size of the operation apparatus 1, but according to the embodiment, as illustrated in
In this configuration, the fixed pipe 31 is a basic part of the stent operation apparatus 1 and as illustrated in
Meanwhile, the fixed pipe 31 is not illustrated in detail in the drawing, but the bipolar electrode 7 may be formed at a front end, that is, one side of the operation end, for example, on an outer peripheral surface of the stent wire 39.
The moving pipe 33 is a means for opening the stent S charted in the fixed pipe 31 at a desired position and as can be appreciated in
In this case, the temperature sensor 47 may be positioned at the electrode 7 portion of the cauterized moving pipe 33 to monitor a temperature of a tissue before cauterization, during cauterization, or after cauterization. A temperature value measured during the cauterization is information on how much the cauterization is performed. Based on the information, it is possible prevent the phenomenon that a heat generation range is beyond a lesion to cauterize and damage normal tissues, the phenomenon that the heat generation range does not reach the lesion to hinder a complete cauterization of the lesion, and the like.
Meanwhile, as described above, the handle 5 which is a means for gripping the pipe member 3 when the stent operation apparatus 1 performs the stent S operation includes a fixed handle 51 attached to the rear end of the fixed pipe 31 and a moving handle 53 attached to the rear end of the moving pipe 33 as illustrated in
Meanwhile, the high frequency generator 9 which is an apparatus generating a high frequency alternating current is widely used for a general electrical operation and as described to be below, is configured to have a positive terminal and a negative terminal selectively connected to the active electrode body 71 or the passive electrode body 73 of the bipolar electrode 7 so as to supply the high frequency alternating current to the bipolar electrode 7 for cauterization.
Further, the bipolar electrode 7 for cauterization is an electrical conductor cauterizing a lesion before or after the stent S operation is performed on the lesion such as a blood vessel V and as illustrated in
In this case, even in the case in which the insulating part 62 is attached by being wound around the outer peripheral surface of the moving pipe 33 corresponding to the insulating gap 61 between the active electrode 71 and the passive electrode 73, the high frequency energy radiation efficiency from the active electrode 71 and the passive electrode 73 may be increased and as the insulating part 62, a flexible material such as Teflon and synthetic resin may be preferably used.
Further, the active electrode 71 and the passive electrode 73 may be in various forms and sizes and as illustrated in
Likewise the stent operation apparatus according to the first embodiment illustrated in
Here, all the pipe member 3, the handle 5, and the high frequency generator 9 are the same as those of the first embodiment described above and therefore the description thereof will be omitted.
However, unlike the electrode 7 according to the first embodiment, the bipolar electrode 107 for cauterization is configured of an active electrode 171 and a passive electrode 173 which are alternately wound around the outer peripheral surface of the moving pipe 33, in which each electrode 171 and 173 is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the moving pipe 33 to be inclined backward in a spiral direction from the front end. In this case, the two electrodes 171 and 173 are wound at the same lead angle in parallel at least twice or more.
Among those, the active electrode 171 has the other end connected to an active terminal 65 of the high frequency generator 5 through the electrode line 13 and the passive electrode body 173 has the other end connected to a passive terminal 66 of the high frequency generator 5 through the electrode wire 63. In this case, the active terminal 65 or the passive terminal 66 may be a positive pole or a negative pole according to selection. In particular, as illustrated in
Further, in the bipolar electrode 107 for cauterization according to another embodiment of the present invention, as illustrated in
In this case, in order to increase an emission density of high frequency energy, as illustrated in
As described above, each of the concentration parts 175 and 177 may not be considered as one winding body since the pitch P of a winding is short or is not present, such that as illustrated in
As another embodiment, when an insulating part 162 is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the moving pipe of the insulating gap between the corresponding concentration parts 175 and 177 as illustrated in
Meanwhile, the active electrode 171 and the passive electrode 173 are connected to the electrode wire 63 continued to the high frequency generator 9 through the moving handle 53 integrally formed at the rear end of the moving pipe 33 and unlike the first embodiment in which the lead wire 49 is extracted from the moving handle 53 through a separate wiring pipe 48, the electrodes 171 and 173 are used as the lead wire 49 as they are. As illustrated in
Hereinafter, an action of the stent 1 provided with a cauterization system according to the present invention configured as described above will be described.
When the stent 1 provided with a cauterization system according to the first embodiment of the present invention performs the stent S operation, as illustrated in
Next, when the high frequency generator 9 is operated to radiate the high frequency current through the active electrode 71 and the passive electrode 73, ions of lesion tissue generate vibration by energy generated in an energy radiation zone represented by an oval in
Then, when the moving pipe 33 relatively moves while the position of the fixed pipe 31 is fixed, as illustrated in
Meanwhile, likewise the case in which stent operation apparatus 101 according to the second embodiment performs the stent S operation, as illustrated in
Next, when the high frequency generator 9 is operated, the high frequency alternating current is radiated between the active electrode 71 and the passive electrode 73. In this case, as illustrated in
Further, according to another embodiment of the present invention, as illustrated in
Next, likewise the first embodiment, the moving pipe 33 relatively moves while the position of the fixed pipe 31 is fixed, and thus as illustrated in
According to the combined cauterization and stent operation device according to the present invention, the lesion may be cauterized and necrotized by the bipolar electrode of a tip portion of a moving pipe charged with the stent before or after the stent is operated on the lesion, thereby effectively preventing a re-stricture from occurring at the lesion operated by the stent.
In addition, the single stent operation apparatus may perform the stent operation and the cauterization of the operation portion at a time and therefore there is no need to overlappingly perform the insertion operation of the stent operation apparatus and the insertion operation of the cauterization operation, thereby more improving the operation efficiency such as the reduction in the burden to both of the patient to be operated and the operation performing the operation, the reduction in the operation cost, and the like.
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