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Method of destroying tissue cells by electroporation

  • US 10,335,224 B2
  • Filed: 09/11/2015
  • Issued: 07/02/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of treating a living human body by destroying tissue cells, comprising:

  • positioning one or more electrodes over skin cells of the living human body, the skin cells of the living human body overlying fat cells of the living human body, the one or more positioned electrodes defining a target area containing fat cells to be killed in the living human body; and

    treating the living human body by applying electrical pulses through the one or more positioned electrodes in an amount above an upper limit of electroporation to irreversibly open pores in membranes of the fat cells in the target area, thereby killing the fat cells in the target area.

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