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US 2014/0156024 A1Published application
Artificial stomach
AssigneeMilux Holding SA
InventorPeter FORSELL
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Abstract
An artificial stomach for replacing the normal stomach of a patient includes a food reservoir adapted to collect food, an inlet connected to a first opening of the food reservoir and further being adapted to upstream connect to the patient's gastrointestinal tract, and an outlet connected to a second opening of the food reservoir and further being adapted to downstream connect to the patient's gastrointestinal tract.
Claims25
A method for surgically placing an artificial stomach in a patient, the method comprising the steps of:
- cutting an opening in the abdominal wall of the patient,
- dissecting the area around the stomach,
- placing an artificial stomach in the dissected area in the abdomen, comprising:
- a food reservoir adapted to collect food,
- an inlet connected to a first opening of the food reservoir and further being adapted to upstream connect to the patient's gastrointestinal tract, and
- an outlet connected to a second opening of the food reservoir and further being adapted to downstream connect to the patient's gastrointestinal tract,
- an inlet valve connected between the patient's gastrointestinal tract and the first opening of the food reservoir,
- connecting the inlet with the inlet valve and the first opening of the food reservoir upstream to the patient's gastrointestinal tract, and
- connecting the outlet with the second opening of the food reservoir downstream to the patient's gastrointestinal tract.
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A method for surgically placing an artificial stomach in a patient, the method comprising the steps of:
- cutting an opening in the abdominal wall of the patient,
- dissecting the area around the stomach,
- placing an artificial stomach in the dissected area in the abdomen, comprising:
- a food reservoir adapted to collect food,
- an inlet connected to a first opening of the food reservoir and further being adapted to upstream connect to the patient's gastrointestinal tract,
- an outlet connected to a second opening of the food reservoir and further being adapted to downstream connect to the patient's gastrointestinal tract,
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- a servo reservoir for regulating the size of the food reservoir,
- wherein an outer wall encloses both the food reservoir and the servo reservoir, the food reservoir and the servo reservoir being separated by a flexible inner wall, and wherein both a wall of the food reservoir and a wall of the servo reservoir comprise parts of the outer wall and the flexible inner wall.
- connecting the inlet and the first opening of the food reservoir upstream to the patient's gastrointestinal tract, and
- connecting the outlet with the second opening of the food reservoir downstream to the patient's gastrointestinal tract.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.