Methods and devices for medical implants
AssigneeBiomedix, Inc.
InventorNorman Godin
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Abstract
A method for maintaining a medical device in place in a lumen of a hollow organ of a patient for a period of months or years includes not using a metal or bioresorbable self-expandable stent. Optionally, a platelet rich plasma (PRP) solution can be applied to a stent to integrate the stent into an interior passageway of a patient. The stent can optionally be formed of a nitinol and inserted through a mouth of the patient. Sutures can be used to attach the stent to the interior passageway of the patient.
Claims6
A method of minimally-invasive treatment of at least one of reflux disease and obesity of a patient, the method comprising:
- inserting a nitinol stent through a mouth of the patient;
- placing the nitinol stent in at least a portion of an esophageal wall of an esophagus of the patient;
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- applying a platelet rich plasma (PRP) solution of the patient onto at least one of the nitinol stent and the esophageal wall so that the stent becomes integrated into the esophageal wall, the PRP solution including stem cells of the patient.
A nitinol stent configured to be placed through a mouth of a patient and in an esophageal wall of an esophagus of the patient, the nitinol stent including a platelet rich plasma (PRP) solution of the patient thereby allowing the nitinol stent to be integrated into the esophageal wall, the PRP solution including stem cells of the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.