Medical devices for collecting pathogenic cells
AssigneeCook Medical Technologies LLC
InventorsJulia E. Barbick, Andrew K. Hoffa, Tyler J. Bunch, Sean Chambers, Colleen Gemborys
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Abstract
Disclosed is a medical device constructed and arranged for contact with a flow of blood or other bodily fluid of a patient and including an attached binding agent or a roughened surface that binds to pathogenic cells targeted for elimination from the blood or other bodily fluid. Also disclosed are methods for making and using the device.
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A method for destroying pathogenic cells of a patient, comprising:
- applying a pathogenic cell destroying agent to pathogenic cells localized to a device exposed to a flow of a bodily fluid of the patient, the device having attached thereto a binding agent to which the pathogenic cells are bound or having a roughened surface to which the pathogenic cells are bound.
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A medical device, comprising:
- an implant constructed and arranged to be placed within a vessel lumen of a patient;
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- a surface to which pathogenic cells circulating in bodily fluid of the patient bind preferentially to non-pathogenic cells circulating in bodily fluid of the patient, wherein the surface includes a binding agent attached to the implant which binds at least preferentially to pathogenic cells circulating in bodily fluid of the patient as compared to non-pathogenic cells circulating in the bodily fluid of the patient, or wherein the surface is a pathogenic cell binding roughened surface.
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A method for eliminating pathogenic cells from bodily fluid of a patient, comprising:
- positioning a device in contact with a flow of bodily fluid of the patient;
- capturing bodily fluid borne pathogenic cells on the device while in contact with the flow of bodily fluid;
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- eliminating the captured pathogenic cells.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.