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US 7,731,676 B2Granted
Ureteral stent
OwnerToru Maedainventor
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Abstract
A ureter stent designed for assisting the draining of urine with calculus fragments. The ureter stent includes a first holding portion, a second holding portion and a junction portion. The first holding portion has a pigtail shape for holding itself in a kidney. The second holding portion has a pigtail shape for holding itself in a bladder. The junction portion joins the first holding portion and the second holding portion and placed in a ureter. The junction portion is made of a metal round wire having no internal flow path. Urine flows outside the ureter stent.
Claims16
A ureteral stent set comprising:
- a ureteral stent;
- a sleeve;
- and
- a pusher,
- wherein said ureteral stent includes:
- a first holding portion configured to prevent the stent from displacing from a kidney by hanging a junction of renal pelvis and ureter when placed in the renal pelvis;
- a second holding portion configured to prevent the stent from displacing from a bladder by hanging a ureterovesical junction when placed in the bladder;
- and
- a junction portion having a solid-core round wire which joins said first holding portion and said second holding portion,
- wherein a longitudinal direction of said round wire is substantially conforming with the ureter when placed in the ureter, and
- a tube-shaped second ureteral stent having a flow path through which urine flows, said second ureteral stent having a first holding portion configured to prevent the second stent from displacing from a kidney and a second holding portion configured to prevent the second stent from displacing from a bladder, said second stent being sized to allow the external surface of said ureteral stent is slidably fit into an internal path of said second ureteral stent;
- and
- said sleeve is configured to have a tube shape having an internal path through which said ureteral stent is guided into a human body and said first holding portion is guided into a kidney, and
- said pusher is configured to push said ureteral stent along said internal path.
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