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US 6,306,073 B1Granted
Apparatus and method for treating a disease process in a luminal structure with a radionuclide and chelating agent
AssigneeThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
InventorJudah Z. Weinberger
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Abstract
An apparatus and method inhibits a disease process in a luminal structure of a subject by introducing into the luminal structure a balloon catheter with radioactive fluid containing a complex of a radionuclide and a chelating agent in an amount effective to inhibit the disease process.
Claims11
An apparatus for treating a disease process in a luminal structure of a subject comprising:
- a balloon catheter with a fluid delivery port connected thereto;
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- a radioactive fluid inserted into the balloon catheter through the fluid delivery port, said radioactive fluid comprising a complex of a radionuclide and a chelating agent, said complex being introduced in an amount effective to inhibit the disease process and said chelating agent of said complex controlling the biodistribution of the complex in the subject in the event that at least some of the complex escapes the balloon catheter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.