Epileptic seizure therapies comprising partial reduction or cooling of blood flow to brain regions
AssigneeFlint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
InventorIvan Osorio
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Abstract
We report a method of treating an epileptic seizure in a patient, comprising: detecting said epileptic seizure, based on body data from said patient; and reducing a flow of blood to a brain of said patient in response to said detected seizure; wherein said reducing is effected by at least one of: applying a pressure, applying a cooling, or administering a vasoconstrictive agent to a vessel supplying blood to at least a portion of the brain. We also report a medical device system configured to implement the method. We also report a non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method of treating an epileptic seizure in a patient, comprising:
- detecting said epileptic seizure, based on body data from said patient;
- and
- reducing a flow of blood to a brain of said patient in response to said detected seizure;
- wherein said reducing is effected by at least one of:
- applying a pressure, applying a cooling, or administering a vasoconstrictive agent to a vessel supplying blood to at least a portion of the brain.
A non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method of treating an epileptic seizure in a patient, comprising:
- detecting said epileptic seizure, based on body data from said patient;
- and
- decreasing the metabolic rate of epileptogenic or proepileptogenic tissue of the brain by cooling the blood flowing to a blood vessel selected from a carotid artery, a carotid artery branch, a vertebral artery, or a vertebral artery branch of said patient in response to said detected seizure.
A medical device system, comprising:
- an epileptic seizure detection module configured to detect an occurrence of an epileptic seizure, based on body data from a patient;
- a therapy device selected from:
- a pressure device configured to apply pressure to a vessel supplying blood to at least a portion of the brain of a patient,
- a cooling device configured to cool a vessel supplying blood to at least a portion of the brain of said patient, or
- a vasoconstrictive agent device configured to administer a vasoconstrictive agent to a vessel supplying blood to at least a portion of the brain of said patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.