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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533 Claims
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472. A shunt assembly, 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; means for reflecting at least a portion of an emitted energy stimulus within an interior of at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways. - View Dependent Claims (473, 475, 481, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 510, 511, 512, 513)
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514. A shunt assembly, 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 configured to reflecting at least a portion of an emitted energy stimulus within the interior of at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways; 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 (516, 519, 520, 521, 522, 525, 526, 527, 528, 532)
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