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US 2014/0236148 A1Published application
System and method for bronchial dilation
AssigneeHolaira, Inc.
InventorsEdwin J. Hlavka, Lynn Elliott
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Abstract
A method of reducing bronchial constriction in a subject includes delivering energy to create one or more lesions on a main bronchus so as to transect pulmonary nerves sufficiently to reduce bronchial constriction in a lung of the patient distal to the main bronchus.
Claims1
A method of reducing bronchial constriction in a subject, comprising:
- delivering energy so as to damage pulmonary nerves located along an airway in the subject sufficiently to reduce bronchial constriction in a lung of the patient;
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- preventing re-innervation of the pulmonary nerves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.