公开(公告)号：US20190350588A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-21

申请号：US16417183

申请日：2019-05-20

申请人： PneumRx, Inc.

发明人： Verna Rodriguez ,  Kinman Hong

IPC分类号： A61B17/12 ,  A61B1/267 ,  A61F2/04

摘要： The invention provides improved medical devices, therapeutic treatment systems, and treatment methods for treatment of the lung. The invention includes methods, systems, and devices for applying a first lung volume reduction action to the functionally impaired lung tissue so as to reduce its volume to less than a pre-treatment volume; and applying a pro-inflammatory stimulus to the functionally impaired lung tissue having reduced volume, that stimulus being sufficient to induce fibrosis in the functionally impaired lung tissue. The pro-inflammatory stimulus may be separate and additional to that of the lung volume reduction action.