Systems and methods for introducing and applying a bandage structure within a body lumen or hollow body organ

• US 20080287907A1
• Filed: 12/20/2007
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Providence Health System-Oregan
• Original Assignee: Providence Health System-Oregan
• Inventors: Dayton, Amanda, Gregory, Kenton
• Granted Patent: US 8,920,514 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/500
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/273 for the upper alimentary canal, e.g. oesophagoscopes, gastroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/0253 characterized by the adhesive material
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 15/005 Bandage applicators
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/04 Hollow or tubular parts of organs, e.g. bladders, tracheae, bronchi or bile ducts A61F2/18, A61F2/20 take precedence; devices, other than stent-grafts, providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body other than stent-grafts, e.g. stents A61F2/82; instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts A61F2/95
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/958 Inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/00357 implanted wound fillings or covers membranes for covering bone defects A61F2/2846
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 15/28 Polysaccharides or their derivatives A61L15/225 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 5/08 Chitin; Chondroitin sulfate; Hyaluronic acid; Derivatives thereof

Abstract

Systems and methods provide intraluminal delivery of a bandage structure within a body lumen or hollow body organ.

Claims

1. A bandage structure sized and configured to be deployed within a body lumen or hollow body organ.

2. A chitosan bandage structure sized and configured to be deployed within a body lumen or a hollow body organ.

3. An intraluminal delivery system for delivering a bandage structure within a body lumen or hollow body organ.

4. A delivery system according to claim 3, further including means for providing endoscopic visualization.

5. An intraluminal delivery system for delivering a chitosan bandage structure within a body lumen or hollow body organ.

6. A delivery system according to claim 5, further including means for providing endoscopic visualization.

7. A method for intraluminal delivery of a bandage structure within a body lumen or hollow body organ.

8. A method according to claim 7, further including endoscopic visualization.

9. A method for intraluminal delivery of a chitosan bandage structure within a body lumen or hollow body organ.

10. A method according to claim 9, further including endoscopic visualization.