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US 12,138,473 B2Granted
Methods and devices for treating vascular related disorders
AssigneeLuSeed Vascular Ltd.
InventorsNitzan Hirsh, Amir Arthur
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Abstract
A method of treatment including: selecting tissue to be exposed to radiation for gradual closure of one or more blood vessel within the tissue to be exposed radiation; selecting radiation levels to promote gradual constriction of the one or more vessel; exposing the tissue to be exposed radiation to selected radiation levels.
Claims24
A device comprising:
- at least one anchor sized and shaped to anchor said device to a lumen;
- at least one radiation source coupled, by a protrusion, to said at least one anchor, where said at least one radiation source is configured to emit a radiation dose suitable to cause one or both of gradual closure and gradual constriction of a blood vessel portion in or adjacent said lumen at a distance of less than 30 mm from said at least one radiation source, and wherein said protrusion is configured to extend said at least one source away from a wall of said lumen to which it is anchored into an aneurysm or into a central portion of said lumen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.