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US 6,743,165 B2Granted
Urinary incontinence diagnostic system
AssigneeSolarant Medical, Inc.
InventorsBrian J. Mosel, Loren L. Roy, Frank W. Ingle, Stanley Levy
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AssigneeSolarant Medical, Inc.
InventorsBrian J. Mosel, Loren L. Roy, Frank W. Ingle, Stanley Levy
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Devices, systems, and methods for diagnosing and/or treating urinary incontinence can accurately and reliably monitor both a vesicle pressure and a maximum urethral pressure of a patient during an abdominal pressure pulse so as to determine relationships between these pressures. Alignment between the location of maximum urethral pressure and a pressure sensor of a catheter can be maintained using an anchoring structure having a surface which engages a tissue surface along the bladder neck, urethra, or external meatus, which move with the urethra during abdominal pressure pulses. A pressuregram is generated graphically showing an increase in urethral pressure relative to an increase in vesicle pressure, and is often displayed in real time to a system operator adjacent the patient. Quantitative and/or qualitative diagnostic output allow selective remodeling of the patient's support structure so that the incontinence is inhibited.
A method for evaluating urinary incontinence comprising:
A method for treatment of urinary stress incontinence of a patient, the method comprising:
A method for treatment of urinary stress incontinence of a patient, wherein a pressuregram of the patient indicates urethral pressure of the patient differs from a vesicle pressure of the patient by a continence margin, the pressuregram having a pressuregram slope defined by change of the vesicle pressure relative to change of the urethral pressure, the pressuregram slope being such that the vesicle pressure will exceed the urethral pressure of the patient above an equilibrium pressure, the method comprising:
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