MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION - Patent 1011776

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EP 1 011 776 A2

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(88)	Date of publication A3:
	24.02.2000

(43)	Date of publication:
	28.06.2000 Bulletin 2000/26

(21)	Application number: 99928563.8

(22)	Date of filing: 11.06.1999

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: A61M 25/00

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US9913/154

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 0002/612 (20.01.2000 Gazette 2000/03)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	DE FR GB

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Priority:

10.07.1998 US 113382

(60)	Divisional application:
	00109148.7
	00109149.5

(71)	Applicant: MEDTRONIC, INC.
	Minneapolis,Minnesota 55432 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	DARIUS, Harald D-55271 Stadecken-Ellsheim (DE) DIETZ, Ulrich D-65185 Wiesbaden (DE)

(74)	Representative: Hughes, Andrea Michelle
	Frank B. Dehn & Co.,European Patent Attorneys,179 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4EL London EC4V 4EL (GB)

(54)	MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION