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US 12,661,259 B2Granted
Therapeutic methods for treating tissue
AssigneeInmode Ltd.
InventorsMartin Kerber, Stacie Bell, James Atkinson
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Abstract
A method for treating urinary stress incontinence. The method includes non-invasively cooling target tissue during a first cooling step, a non-cooling step, and non-invasively cooling the target tissue in a second cooling step. The first cooling step, the non-cooling step, and the second cooling step are performed at predetermined temperatures for a predetermined period of time.
Claims23
A method for treating urinary stress incontinence with therapeutic cooling a plurality of target tissues in a subject, the method comprising:
- non-invasively cooling the plurality of target tissues;
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- remodeling one or more submucosal regions of the plurality of target tissues to treat the subject for urinary stress incontinence,
- wherein the plurality of target tissues are located within 4 predetermined quadrants around a vaginal canal,
- wherein the plurality of target tissues comprise 40 target tissue locations, such that each of the 4 predetermined quadrants comprises 10 target tissue locations,
- wherein non-invasively cooling comprises applying at least 10 treatment passes in each of the 4 predetermined quadrants,
- wherein each of the at least 10 treatment passes comprises applying, in a predetermined order, 1 to 5 cooling periods to each of the 10 target tissue locations in each of the 4 predetermined quadrants, and
- wherein the non-invasively cooling a plurality of target tissues further comprises applying up to 20 treatment passes to two or more target tissue locations located alongside a urethra of the subject, each of said 20 treatment passes comprising applying a cooling period.
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