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US 10,238,451 B2Granted
Apparatus and methods to modulate bladder function
AssigneeAmphora Medical, Inc.
InventorsDan Sachs, Edwin J. Hlavka
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods are provided to concentrate energy delivery in non-superficial target tissue within a trigone region of a human bladder wall to modulate bladder function.
Claims15
A method of modulating bladder function, the method comprising:
- maintaining needle electrodes of an energy delivery device within bladder wall tissue using the energy delivery device positioned in a vagina of a patient;
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- activating the needle electrodes within the bladder wall tissue while the energy delivery device is positioned in the vagina to disrupt afferent nerve signals associated with bladder function by applying ablative thermal energy from the needle electrodes of the energy delivery device to a targeted portion of the bladder wall tissue at a selected depth from an inner wall of the vagina.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.