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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631 Claims
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1-610. -610. (canceled)
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611. An implantable shunt system, comprising:
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a body structure having an outer surface and an inner surface defining one or more shunts configured to receive a cerebrospinal fluid of a biological subject, the body structure having one or more surface regions that are controllably actuatable between at least a first wettability state and a second wettability state; and 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 of at least a portion of cells proximate at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface of the body structure. - View Dependent Claims (612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621)
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622. An implantable shunt, comprising:
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a body structure defining one or more fluid-flow passageways configured to receive a biological fluid of a biological subject;
at least a portion of the body structure including a surface region that is energetically actuatable between at least a first wettability state and a second wettability state; andone or more energy emitters configured to emit the energy stimulus to an interior at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways. - View Dependent Claims (623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630)
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631-754. -754. (canceled)
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