Methods and devices for controlled delivery
AssigneeFemasys Inc.
InventorsKathy Lee-Sepsick, Jeremy Sipos
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are exemplary medical devices for controlled delivery of material compositions, particularly occlusive, therapeutic, or diagnostic compositions. Medical devices disclosed herein comprise components for maintaining a stationary position, for providing catheters at a precise step in a method, for inflating or deflating a balloon, if present, and for providing a composition to a target site.
Claims11
A method for occluding at least one fallopian tube in a human or animal body, comprising,
- a) providing a controlled delivery device capable of delivering an effective amount of a composition comprising an occlusive material, wherein the delivery device comprises at least an insertion tube for providing at least one catheter;
- at least one catheter, comprising an end structure on a delivery end that maintains the delivery end in at least one uterine cornua and aids in localized delivery of the one or more compositions;
- a handle;
- a system plunger controlled by a lock that is reversible coupled to a control rod, and a material cartridge containing the composition comprising an occlusive material positioned within a receptacle in the handle;
- b) delivering an effective amount of the composition comprising an occlusive material at or near the target site such that the material occludes the lumen of the fallopian;
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- c) occluding the conduit with the composition comprising an occlusive material within the lumen of the conduit.
A method for contraception, comprising,
- a) providing a delivery system capable of delivering an effective amount of a composition comprising an occlusive material, wherein the delivery device comprises at least an insertion tube for providing at least one catheter;
- at least one catheter, comprising an end structure on a delivery end that maintains the delivery end in at least one uterine cornua and aids in localized delivery of the one or more compositions;
- a handle;
- a system plunger controlled by a lock that is reversible coupled to a control rod, and a material cartridge containing the composition comprising an occlusive material positioned within a receptacle in the handle;
- b) delivering an effective amount of the composition comprising an occlusive material at or near the target location such that the material occludes the lumen of at least one fallopian tube;
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- c) occluding the fallopian tube with the composition comprising an occlusive material within the lumen of the conduit.
A contraceptive device, comprising at least an insertion tube for providing at least one catheter;
- at least one catheter, comprising an end structure on a delivery end that maintains the delivery end in at least one uterine cornua and aids in localized delivery of the one or more compositions;
- a handle;
- a system plunger controlled by a lock that is reversible coupled to a control rod, and a material cartridge containing the composition comprising an occlusive material positioned within a receptacle in the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.