Medical device and treatment method

A medical device is disclosed, which is capable of preventing a maintenance treatment element imparting energy to biological tissue from being displaced from a treatment target site and a treatment method performed on a heart failure patient. A medical device is disclosed, which includes a shaft por...

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Hauptverfasser: Takemura, Tomoaki, Kato, Yukitoshi, Takahashi, Yusuke
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A medical device is disclosed, which is capable of preventing a maintenance treatment element imparting energy to biological tissue from being displaced from a treatment target site and a treatment method performed on a heart failure patient. A medical device is disclosed, which includes a shaft portion, an expandable and contractible expansion body provided on a distal side of the shaft portion, and a maintenance treatment element disposed in the expansion body and imparting energy to biological tissue. The expansion body includes a concave portion recessed in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the shaft portion. The maintenance treatment element is disposed in the concave portion.