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US 2025/0025330 A1Published application
Prosthetic sphincter apparatus
AssigneeKing's College London
InventorsCarlo SENECI-NIHR, Maleeha AL-HAMADANI
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Abstract
A prosthetic sphincter apparatus comprising: a valve controllable between an open position for allowing a stool to pass through the valve and a closed position for preventing a stool from passing through the valve; and an implant configured to be surgically attached to a body part and to lock the valve inside the implant, wherein the valve is configured to be controllable between the open position and the closed position while remaining locked inside the implant.
Claims30
A prosthetic sphincter apparatus comprising:
- a valve controllable between an open position for allowing waste to pass through the valve and a closed position for preventing waste from passing through the valve;
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- an implant configured to be surgically attached to a body part and to lock the valve inside the implant,
- wherein the valve is configured to be controllable between the open position and the closed position while remaining locked inside the implant.
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A method for attaching a prosthetic sphincter apparatus, the method comprising:
- fixing an implant to a body part, the implant configured to lock a valve inside the implant, the valve being controllable between an open position for allowing a stool to pass through the valve and a closed position for preventing waste material from passing through the valve, wherein the valve is configured to be controllable between the open position and the closed position while remaining locked inside the implant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.