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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676 Claims
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1-639. -639. (canceled)
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640. 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; and a disinfecting agent assembly including at least one disinfecting agent reservoir, the disinfecting agent assembly configured to deliver one or more disinfecting agents from the at least one disinfecting agent reservoir to an interior of at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways. - View Dependent Claims (641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 660, 661)
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662. A method, comprising:
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selectively energizing one or more regions of an indwelling shunt having body structure defining one or more fluid-flow passageways configured to receive a biological fluid of a biological subject via one or more one or more energy emitters, and delivering an active agent composition to the one or more regions proximate at least one of an outer surface and an inner surface of the indwelling shunt via one or more disinfecting agent assemblies in response to an automatically detected measurand associated with a cerebrospinal fluid received within at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageway. - View Dependent Claims (663, 664, 665, 666, 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675)
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676-754. -754. (canceled)
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