Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts
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Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.
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596 Claims
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1-575. -575. (canceled)
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576. An implantable shunt system, comprising:
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a shunt assembly having a body structure including at least an outer surface and an inner surface defining one or more fluid-flow passageways configured to receive a cerebrospinal fluid of a biological subject; and one or more selectively activateable ultraviolet energy delivering substrates configured to deliver a sterilizing energy stimulus to one or more regions proximate at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface of the body structure, the one or more selectively activateable ultraviolet energy delivering substrates defining at least a portion of at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface of the body structure. - View Dependent Claims (577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594)
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595. A method, comprising:
concurrently or sequentially delivering to one or more regions of at least one fluid-flow passageway of an indwelling implant cerebrospinal fluid management system a temporally patterned sterilizing energy stimulus via one or more selectively activateable ultraviolet energy delivering substrates configured to independently activate in response to a real-time detected measurand associated with a cerebrospinal fluid received within the at least one fluid-flow passageway.
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596-754. -754. (canceled)
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