Systems and methods for repairing spinal disc injury or treating spinal disc disease
AssigneePanacea Spine, LLC
InventorAra Deukmedjian
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Abstract
A method for treating or repairing a damaged spinal disc of a patient may include inserting, using medical imaging, a shaft with a lumen extending from an exterior of a patient to the damaged spinal disc, dispensing silver particles, using the lumen, to the damaged spinal disc, and removing the hollow shaft from the patient. A system may include a syringe and silver particles in the syringe. A kit may include silver particles, and at least one of a guidewire, one or more dilators, a tubular retractor, a disposable endoscope, a disposable laser fiber; an endoscopic ronjeurs, indigo carmine dye, or a fluid adaptor.
Claims20
A method for treating or repairing a damaged spinal disc of a patient, comprising:
- inserting, using medical imaging, a shaft with a lumen extending from an exterior of a patient to the damaged spinal disc;
- dispensing silver particles, using the lumen, to the damaged spinal disc;
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- removing the hollow shaft from the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.