System, devices, and methods including actively-controllable sterilizing excitation delivery implants
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Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively-controllable disinfecting implantable device configured to, for example, treat or prevent an infection in a biological subject.
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525 Claims
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416. An implantable device, comprising:
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an actively-controllable excitation component configured to deliver a pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus, in vivo, to a region proximate a surface of the implantable device; and a control means operably coupled to the actively-controllable excitation component and configured to regulate at least one of a delivery regimen parameter, a spaced-apart delivery pattern parameter, and a temporal delivery pattern parameter associated with the delivery of the pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus. - View Dependent Claims (417, 418, 425, 426, 427, 431, 435, 436, 444, 445, 454, 456, 457, 464, 468, 470, 471, 478, 479, 480, 485)
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491. An indwelling medical implant, comprising:
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a sensor component configured to perform a real-time comparison of a measurand associated with a biological sample proximate one or more regions of at least one surface of the indwelling implant to stored reference data; and one or more energy emitters configured to emit a pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus of a character and for a time sufficient to induce apoptosis without substantially inducing necrosis of at least a portion of cells proximate the indwelling medical implant in response to the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (492, 493, 496)
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504. An implantable system, comprising:
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circuitry for delivering a pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus, in vivo, to a region proximate a surface of an indwelling medical implant, the pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus of a character and for a time sufficient to induce apoptosis without substantially inducing necrosis of at least a portion of cells within the region proximate the indwelling medical implant; and circuitry for regulating at least one parameter associated with the delivery of the pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus in response to a determination that an infectious agent is present within the region proximate the indwelling medical implant. - View Dependent Claims (505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 511)
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513. An in vivo method of treating an infectious agent, comprising:
providing a pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus via one or more energy-emitting components to one or more regions proximate at least one surface of an indwelling implant, the pulsed thermal sterilizing stimulus of a character and for a duration sufficient to induce apoptosis of an infectious agent within the one or more regions proximate the at least one surface of the indwelling implant. - View Dependent Claims (515, 518, 521, 522, 524, 525)
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