System for treating a patient
AssigneeFractyl Health, Inc.
InventorsHarith Rajagopalan, Jay Caplan, Jason West, Jacob Wainer, Michael Biasella, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Abstract
Provided herein are methods for providing a therapeutic benefit to a patient. A method of treating a patient with a metabolic disease and/or a pancreatic disease includes: selecting a patient with a metabolic disease and/or a pancreatic disease; selecting one or more pancreatic deposit sites; advancing a depositing device comprising a at least one depositing element to the selected one or more pancreatic deposit sites; and delivering a treatment agent through the at least one depositing element into the selected one or more pancreatic deposit sites. Systems and devices are also described.
Claims13
A method of treating a medical condition of a patient, comprising:
- advancing an access device through a mouth of the patient, the access device comprising an ultrasonically guided endoscope comprising a working channel sized to slidingly receive a depositing device, the depositing device comprising a depositing element;
- and
- performing at least one injection comprising:
- advancing the depositing element through the working channel of the ultrasonically guided endoscope and through a wall of a gastrointestinal tract of the patient to a location proximate at least one deposit site in the patient;
- and
- delivering a treatment agent into the at least one deposit site via the depositing element,
- wherein the at least one deposit site is the intraparenchymal space of the pancreas of the patient,
- wherein the treatment agent comprises gene therapy material, and
- wherein the method treats a medical condition of the patient selected from the group consisting of:
- type one diabetes;
- type two diabetes;
- obesity;
- and combinations thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.