Deployment of multiple biliary stents

    公开(公告)号:US12186217B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US17254865

    申请日:2019-06-27

    Abstract: A guide tube (220) has a guidewire-engaging portion (222) at a distal portion (260) thereof, a first stent (54) surrounding the guide tube, advanceable together with the guide tube into a subject's lumen, a guidewire (12) arranged (i) entering the guide tube from a distal-end (320) opening thereof, (ii) disposed in the guidewire-engaging portion, and (iii) passing out of the guide tube proximally to the guidewire-engaging portion, and a second stent (54), proximal to the first stent, surrounding a proximal portion (240) of the guide tube and the guidewire. The first stent is slidably deployable off the distal end of the guide tube upon the guidewire having laterally exited the guidewire-engaging portion, and the second stent is slidably deployable off the distal end of the guide tube subsequently to deployment of the first stent, without the guidewire having been moved proximally. Other applications are also described.

    Apparatus for treating GERD
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12178696B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US18239787

    申请日:2023-08-30

    Applicant: Peter Forsell

    Inventor: Peter Forsell

    Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of acid reflux disease comprising two or more movement restriction device segments adapted to be movement restriction device of a controlled size. The movement restriction device can at least partly be invaginated by a patient's stomach fundus wall. A substantial part of the outer surface of the movement restriction device is adapted to rest against the stomach wall without injuring the latter in a position between the patient's diaphragm and at least a portion of the lower part of the invaginated stomach fundus wall, such that movement of the cardiac notch of the patient's stomach towards the patient's diaphragm is restricted, to thereby prevent the cardia from sliding through the patient's diaphragm opening into the patient's thorax, so as to maintain the supporting pressure against the patient's cardia sphincter muscle exerted from the patient's abdomen.

    ESOPHAGEAL STENTS AND RELATED METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20240398539A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-05

    申请号:US18798048

    申请日:2024-08-08

    Abstract: Stents are disclosed herein. The stents described herein can comprise a hollow cylindrical body in which a middle region extends to a first end and also extends to an opposing second end. The first end and the second end can each comprise a plurality of flanges, within which the flanges can have either similar or different characteristics, particularly physical profiles.

    DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR LUNG TREATMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20240398538A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-05

    申请号:US18737764

    申请日:2024-06-07

    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring the diameter of an airway in a human or animal subject are disclosed. The device comprises a flexible catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end. Flexible sizing elements are disposed along and extend approximately orthogonally from the catheter body. The sizing elements have different heights from one another and are configured to fit through the working channel of a bronchoscope. Devices, systems, and methods for redirecting airflow through a lung airway are also disclosed. The method comprises introducing into the airway a catheter comprising a distal end, a proximal end and an elongated portion therebetween, wherein the distal end comprises an airway closing mechanism, and wherein the proximal end comprises an actuator to actuate the airway closing mechanism; and actuating the airway closing mechanism to at least partially close the airway.

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