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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for prostate treatment
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Application No.: US16510022Application Date: 2019-07-12
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Publication No.: US11331135B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Michael Hoey , John H. Shadduck
- Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Agency: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC
- Main IPC: A61B18/14
- IPC: A61B18/14 ; A61B18/04 ; A61B18/00

Abstract:
An energy delivery probe is provided that may include any of a number of features. One feature of the energy delivery probe is that it can apply energy to tissue, such as a prostrate, to shrink, damage, denaturate the prostate. In some embodiments, the energy can be applied with a vapor media. The energy delivery probe can include a vapor delivery member configured to extend into a transition zone prostate tissue. A condensable vapor media can be delivered from the vapor delivery member into the transition zone tissue, wherein the condensable vapor media can propagate interstitially in the transition zone tissue and be confined in the transition zone tissue by boundary tissue adjacent to the transition zone tissue. Methods associated with use of the energy delivery probe are also covered.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200008858A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROSTATE TREATMENT Public/Granted day:2020-01-09
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