Implants and methods for treating bone
    32.
    发明授权
    Implants and methods for treating bone 有权
    植入物和治疗骨的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07621952B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-24

    申请号:US11146893

    申请日:2005-06-07

    IPC分类号: A61F2/44

    摘要: An orthopedic implant comprising a deformable, expandable implant body configured for treating abnormalities in bones, such as compression fractures of vertebra, necrosis of femurs and the like. An exemplary implant body comprises a small cross-section threaded element that is introduced into a bone region and thereafter is expanded into a larger cross-section, monolithic assembly to provide a bone support. In one embodiment, the implant body is at least partly fabricated of a magnesium alloy that is biodegradable to allow for later tissue ingrowth.

    摘要翻译: 一种矫形植入物,包括可变形的,可扩张的植入体,其被配置用于治疗骨骼的异常,例如椎骨的压缩性骨折,股骨的坏死等。 示例性植入物主体包括被引入到骨区域中的小横截面的螺纹元件,然后被扩展成更大的横截面的整体式组件以提供骨支撑。 在一个实施例中,植入体至少部分地由可生物降解的镁合金制成,以允许稍后的组织向内生长。

    BONE TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    33.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20080255570A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-16

    申请号:US12062345

    申请日:2008-04-03

    IPC分类号: A61B17/58 A61B18/04

    摘要: Systems and methods for delivering bone cement into a bone can include a handle body defining a flow path, a thermal emitter in the handle body to apply energy to bone cement passing through the flow path, a source of bone cement and an injection cannula. The cannula can be in communication with the flow path such that inserting the cannula into a bone can allow a flow of bone cement therethrough to an opening at a distal end of the cannula. Other systems and methods for delivering bone cement into a bone can include an injector body with a handle portion, and a cannula, a bone cement container, a low pressure drive mechanism configured to effect a flow of bone cement from said container to the injector body and a high pressure drive mechanism configured to effect a flow of bone cement through the injector body into the bone.

    Composite implant and method for treating bone abnormalities
    35.
    发明申请
    Composite implant and method for treating bone abnormalities 审中-公开
    复合植入物和治疗骨质异常的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080132899A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-06-05

    申请号:US11130837

    申请日:2005-05-17

    IPC分类号: A61B17/58

    摘要: This invention relates to implantable bone fill materials, systems and methods of treating bone abnormalities such as compression fractures of vertebrae, bone necrosis, bone tumors, cysts and the like. In an exemplary embodiment, the bone abnormality is accessed and a space is created by bone removal or compaction. An exemplary implant of the invention has a substantially fluid impermeable surface portion and an interior portion including an in-situ hardenable bone cement. The method of the invention includes applying energy to the fill material to accelerate polymerization and hardening of the material for supporting the bone.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及可植入骨填充材料,治疗骨骼异常的系统和方法,例如椎骨压缩性骨折,骨坏死,骨肿瘤,囊肿等。 在一个示例性实施例中,访问骨异常并且通过骨移除或压实产生空间。 本发明的示例性植入物具有基本上不透流体的表面部分和包括原位可硬化骨粘固剂的内部部分。 本发明的方法包括向填充材料施加能量以加速用于支撑骨的材料的聚合和硬化。

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING BONE FILL MATERIAL AND CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE THEREOF
    36.
    发明申请
    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING BONE FILL MATERIAL AND CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE THEREOF 审中-公开
    用于输送骨材料并控制其温度的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20070233148A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-10-04

    申请号:US11469769

    申请日:2006-09-01

    IPC分类号: A61F2/00

    摘要: The present invention relates in certain embodiments to systems and methods for use in osteoplasty procedures, such as vertebral compression fractures. One system for injecting a bone fill material includes a container carrying a bone fill material. An elongated introducer configured for introduction into a vertebral body is coupleable to the container to allow a flow of the bone fill material therethrough. A cooling mechanism is coupled to the container and is configured to cool the bone fill material in the container to extend the working time of the bone fill material. One method for treating a vertebra includes providing a bone fill material, cooling the bone fill material to stall the polymerization of the bone fill material, heating the bone fill material to accelerate the polymerization of the bone fill material and delivering the bone fill material into a vertebral body.

    摘要翻译: 本发明在某些实施例中涉及用于骨成形术程序(例如椎体压缩性骨折)的系统和方法。 一种用于注射骨填充材料的系统包括携带骨填充材料的容器。 构造成用于引入椎体的细长导引器可连接到容器以允许骨填充材料流过其中。 冷却机构联接到容器并且被配置为冷却容器中的骨填充材料以延长骨填充材料的工作时间。 治疗椎骨的一种方法包括提供骨填充材料,冷却骨填充材料以阻止骨填充材料的聚合,加热骨填充材料以加速骨填充材料的聚合并将骨填充材料输送到 椎体。

    Electrical discharge devices and techniques for medical procedures
    37.
    发明授权
    Electrical discharge devices and techniques for medical procedures 有权
    用于医疗程序的放电装置和技术

    公开(公告)号:US07220261B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-05-22

    申请号:US11065180

    申请日:2005-02-23

    IPC分类号: A61B18/18

    摘要: A medical instrument coupled to first and second energy means and a computer controller for the controlled volumetric removal of thin tissue layers. The system provides a source for introducing a gas to controllably form and capture transient gas volumes in a microchannel structure at the working surface of the instrument that interfaces with a targeted tissue site. Each of the microchannel features of the working surface carries an electrode element coupled to the electrical source. The energy may be applied to the targeted site in either of two modes of operation, depending in part on voltage and repetition rate of energy delivery. In one mode of energy application, electrical potential is selected to cause an intense electrical arc across the transient ionized gas volumes to cause an energy-tissue interaction characterized by tissue vaporization. In another preferred mode of energy delivery, the system applies selected levels of energy to the targeted site by means of an energetic plasma at the instrument working surface to cause molecular volatilization of surface macromolecules thus resulting in material removal. Both modes of operation limit collateral thermal damage to tissue volumes adjacent to the targeted site. Another preferred embodiment provides and an ultrasound source or other vibrational source coupled to the working end to cause cavitation in fluid about the working end.

    摘要翻译: 耦合到第一和第二能量装置的医疗器械和用于受控体积移除薄组织层的计算机控制器。 该系统提供用于引入气体的源,以可控地形成并捕获与目标组织部位相接触的仪器工作表面处的微通道结构中的瞬态气体体积。 工作表面的每个微通道特征带有耦合到电源的电极元件。 能量可以以两种操作模式中的任一种施加到目标位置,部分取决于能量传递的电压和重复率。 在一种能量应用模式中,选择电势以在瞬态电离气体体积上引起强烈的电弧以引起以组织蒸发为特征的能量 - 组织相互作用。 在另一种优选的能量输送模式中,系统通过仪器工作表面上的能量等离子体将选择的能量施加到目标部位,从而导致表面大分子的分子挥发,从而导致材料去除。 两种操作模式都限制了与目标部位相邻的组织体积的附带热损伤。 另一个优选实施例提供了耦合到工作端的超声源或其他振动源,以在工作端周围引起流体中的空化。

    Electrosurgical working end for controlled energy delivery
    38.
    发明授权
    Electrosurgical working end for controlled energy delivery 有权
    电外科工作端可控能量输送

    公开(公告)号:US07070597B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-04

    申请号:US10643787

    申请日:2003-08-19

    IPC分类号: A61B18/14

    摘要: An electrosurgical working end for automatic modulation of active Rf density in a targeted tissue volume. The working end of the probe of the present invention defines a tissue-engagement surface of an elastomeric material with conductive elements that extend therethrough. In one embodiment, the expansion of the elastomeric material can de-couple the conductive elements from an interior electrode based temperature to modulate current flow. In another embodiment, the elastomeric material can couple and de-couple the conductive elements from an interior electrode based engagement pressure to modulate current flow.

    摘要翻译: 用于自动调节靶组织体积中的活性Rf密度的电外科工作端。 本发明的探针的工作端限定弹性体材料的组织接合表面,其中导电元件延伸穿过其中。 在一个实施例中,弹性体材料的膨胀可以将导电元件从基于内部电极的温度解耦,以调制电流。 在另一个实施例中,弹性体材料可以将导电元件从内部基于电极的接合压力耦合和解耦,以调制电流。

    Microspheres with sacrificial coatings for vaso-occlusive systems
    39.
    发明授权
    Microspheres with sacrificial coatings for vaso-occlusive systems 有权
    具有用于血管闭塞系统的牺牲涂层的微球

    公开(公告)号:US06958061B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-10-25

    申请号:US10456149

    申请日:2003-06-05

    IPC分类号: A61B17/12 A61B18/18

    摘要: A vaso-occlusive system comprising a catheter with a working end that carries a fluid media for introduction into an aneurysm. The fluid media carries a volume of microspheres, wherein each microsphere has a sacrificial shell or coating that surrounds an interior core portion of the microsphere. The core portions of the microspheres comprise either a first or second polymerizing composition, wherein interaction of such binary compositions will cause polymerization of the media into a gel or solid media that will occlude the aneurysm. An energy delivery means is provided within the catheter working end to cause removal of the sacrificial coatings of the volume of microspheres to thereby induce the polymerization process.

    摘要翻译: 一种血管闭塞系统,包括具有工作端的导管,所述工作端承载用于引入动脉瘤的流体介质。 流体介质携带一定体积的微球体,其中每个微球体具有围绕微球体的内部核心部分的牺牲壳体或涂层。 微球的核心部分包括第一或第二聚合组合物,其中这种二元组合物的相互作用将引起培养基聚合成凝胶或固体培养基,其将闭塞动脉瘤。 在导管工作端内提供能量输送装置,以便移除体积的微球的牺牲涂层,从而引起聚合过程。

    Surgical system for applying ultrasonic energy to tissue
    40.
    发明授权
    Surgical system for applying ultrasonic energy to tissue 有权
    将超声能量应用于组织的手术系统

    公开(公告)号:US06773409B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-08-10

    申请号:US09957529

    申请日:2001-09-19

    IPC分类号: A61B1804

    摘要: A surgical system for controlled application of ultrasound energy to engaged tissue volumes for creating effective biological welds or seals in tissue. The invention provides an ultrasound transmission assembly including piezoelectric elements coupled to an elongate waveguide that is reciprocatable in an interior of an introducer. The reciprocatable waveguide assembly of the invention is adapted to have multiple functionality: (i) to couple ultrasound energy to both opposing jaws to thereby deliver energy to both sides of engaged tissues to create uniform thermal weld effects; (ii) to apply very high compressive forces to captured tissues over the length of elongate jaws by engaging substantially the entire length of the jaws, and (iii) to transect the captured tissues contemporaneous with the delivery of energy to create the thermal weld. The invention further provides for use of other energy sources to deliver thermal energy to tissue, for example microwave energy, Rf energy and laser energy, either in combination with ultrasound energy or independently.

    摘要翻译: 一种外科系统,用于将受控的超声能量应用于接合的组织体积,以在组织中产生有效的生物学焊缝或密封。 本发明提供了一种超声波传输组件,其包括耦合到细长波导的压电元件,其可在导引器的内部中往复运动。 本发明的可往复波导组件适于具有多个功能:(i)将超声能量耦合到两个相对的钳口,从而将能量传递到啮合组织的两侧以产生均匀的热焊接效应; (ii)通过接合基本上整个长度的钳口,在延长的钳口的长度上对捕获的组织施加非常高的压缩力,并且(iii)在同时产生能量的同时延伸捕获的组织以产生热焊接。 本发明进一步提供了使用其他能量来组合超声能量或独立地将热能传递给组织,例如微波能量,Rf能量和激光能量。