Intestinal barrier sleeve with expandable anchor section
OwnerRobin Baradarianinventor
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Abstract
An intestinal barrier sleeve and corresponding treatments using the sleeve are provided herein. The sleeve generally includes an expanding section coupled to a tubular section at an interface there between. The expanding section is expandable from at least a first collapsed position to at least one expanded position, where the expanding section has a conical shape that when expanded retains the sleeve in the subject gastrointestinal tract. The expanding section may further include a plurality of petal-like elements extending radially from the narrow end of the conical shape and the petal-like elements may be interconnected with a webbing to form the conical shape.
Claims20
An intestinal bather sleeve comprising an expanding anchor section coupled to a tubular section at an interface there between at a proximal end of the tubular section, the expanding section expandable from at least one collapsed position to at least one expanded position, wherein in the collapsed position the expanded section has a compact shape that allows the sleeve to be placed into a subject's gastrointestinal tract endoscopically and in the expanded position the expanding anchor section retains the sleeve in the subject's stomach near the gastrointestinal tract.
A method for treating a subject with an ailment, the method comprising:
- maintaining an intestinal barrier sleeve in a collapsed position, wherein the sleeve comprises an expanding section coupled to a tubular section at an interface there between, the expanding section expandable from at least the first collapsed position to at least one expanded position;
- placing the sleeve with the collapsing section in the first position into a subject's gastrointestinal tract endoscopically;
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- expanding the expanding section within the subject's gastrointestinal tract therewith retaining the sleeve in the subject's gastrointestinal tract.
An intestinal bather sleeve comprising an expanding section coupled to a tubular section at an interface there between, the expanding section expandable from at least a first collapsed position to at least one expanded position, wherein the expanding section has a conical shape with a hole therein at a narrow end of the conical shape, and wherein the conical shape is in communication with a lumen of the tubular section through the hole, and wherein the expanding section comprises a plurality of petal-like elements extending radially from the narrow end of the conical shape, the petal-like elements interconnected with a webbing to form the conical shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.