Medical instrument
AssigneeSosaikouseikai Clinical Foundation Matsunami Research Park
InventorsHidetoshi Matsunami, Kuniaki Saito, Yushi Matuo, Masao Takemura
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Abstract
A medical device according to the present invention is to be arranged in a lumen of a gastrointestinal tract. The medical device includes: at least one cylindrical part which is opened at least one end thereof; and at least one attachment part which is arranged on at least one portion of the cylindrical part and is configured such that the medical device is attachable to the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. The cylindrical part is configured to be arrangeable along at least one portion of the gastrointestinal tract, and at least one portion of a side surface of the cylindrical part is configured to be followable to a shape of an inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract.
Claims11
A medical device to be arranged in a lumen of a gastrointestinal tract, comprising:
- at least one cylindrical part which is opened at both ends thereof;
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- at least one attachment part which is arranged on at least one portion of the cylindrical part and is configured such that the medical device is attachable to the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract,
- wherein the cylindrical part is configured to be arrangeable along at least one portion of the gastrointestinal tract and has a length of from 30 cm to 9 m, and at least one portion of a side surface of the cylindrical part is configured to be followable to a shape of an inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract and to cause some of a digestive fluid and/or a digested content to permeate therethrough,
- wherein the cylindrical part is deformable in accordance with a motility of the gastrointestinal tract, and
- wherein the cylindrical part is expandable and reducible in a diametrical direction of the cylindrical part in accordance with the motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.