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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640 Claims
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1-630. -630. (canceled)
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631. An implantable shunt device, comprising:
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a body structure having an outer surface and an inner surface defining one or more fluid-flow passageways configured to receive a cerebrospinal fluid of a biological subject; one or more energy emitters configured to direct an energy stimulus to at least one of an interior and an exterior of at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways, the energy stimulus of a character and for a duration sufficient to induce programmed cell death without substantially inducing necrosis of at least a portion of cells proximate at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface of the body structure; a sensor component including one or more sensors configured to detect at least one of an emitted optical energy and a remitted optical energy from a one or more regions proximate at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface of the body structure; and one or more computer-readable memory media having cerebrospinal fluid information configured as a data structure. - View Dependent Claims (632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639)
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640-754. -754. (canceled)
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