Method for dissolving a thickened mass within a living body and dissolving therapeutic apparatus for same
First Claim
1. A method of dissolving a thickened mass within a living body and discharging it out of the living body, comprising the steps of:
- injecting into said living body a medicinal liquid for dissolving said thickened mass within said living body;
leaving with said living body for a predetermined time said medicinal liquid injected by said injecting step in order to dissolve said thickened mass with said medicinal liquid;
discharging out of the living body substantially all of the fluid within said living body containing said thickened mass dissolved by said medicinal liquid in said leaving step and said medicinal liquid; and
repeating a series of steps including at least said injecting step, leaving step and discharging step, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass.
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Abstract
In the method and dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a coagulation within a living body, a medicinal liquid for dissolving the coagulation within the living body is injected into the living body, the injected medicinal liquid is left within the living body for a predetermined time and the fluid within the living body containing the coagulation dissolved by the medicinal liquid and the medicinal liquid is substantially all discharged out of the living body. A series of steps including at least respective injecting, leaving and discharging steps is repeated. Preferably, vibrating waves are radiated toward the coagulation during the leaving step.
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41 Claims
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1. A method of dissolving a thickened mass within a living body and discharging it out of the living body, comprising the steps of:
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injecting into said living body a medicinal liquid for dissolving said thickened mass within said living body; leaving with said living body for a predetermined time said medicinal liquid injected by said injecting step in order to dissolve said thickened mass with said medicinal liquid; discharging out of the living body substantially all of the fluid within said living body containing said thickened mass dissolved by said medicinal liquid in said leaving step and said medicinal liquid; and repeating a series of steps including at least said injecting step, leaving step and discharging step, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a thickened mass within a living body, comprising:
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an injecting means for injecting into said living body a medicinal liquid for dissolving said thickened mass within said living body; a sucking means for sucking the fluid within said living body containing said medicinal solution and discharging it out of the living body; and a controlling means for controlling said injecting means and sucking means so as to make the respective steps of injecting said medicinal liquid into said living body by operating said injecting means, leaving said injecting medicinal liquid within said living body for a predetermined time and discharging out of the living body said fluid within the living body containing said thickened mass dissolved by said left medicinal liquid and said medicinal liquid by operating said sucking means, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An operation setting apparatus to be used for dissolving therapeutic apparatus wherein a medicinal liquid for dissolving a thickened mass within a living body is injected into said living body, said injected medicinal liquid is held within said living body and the fluid within the living body containing said thickened mass dissolved by said medicinal liquid and said medicinal liquid is discharged out of the living body, comprising:
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a holding time setting means for optionally setting the time for holding within said living body said medicinal liquid injected into said living body; and a repeating number setting means for optionally setting the number of repetitions of the three of injecting, holding and discharging steps as one unit, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a thickened mass within a living body, comprising:
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an injecting means for injecting into said living body a medicinal liquid for dissolving said thickened mass within said living body; a sucking means for sucking the fluid within said living body containing said medicinal liquid and discharging it out of the living body; a pressure detecting means for detecting the pressure of the injecting part of said medicinal liquid injected by said injecting means; a controlling means for controlling said injecting means and sucking means; a setting means operatively connected to said controlling means and for setting in advance the time table of the operations of said injecting means and sucking means; and said controlling means having a time controlling mode controlling said injecting means and sucking means according to said time table an a pressure controlling mode wherein, when said pressure detecting means detects that the pressure of said injecting part has exceeded a predetermined pressure, apart from the control by said time controlling mode, at least one of said injecting means and sucking means will be controlled and the pressure of said injecting part will be adjusted so that the pressure detected by said pressure detecting means may be below said predetermined pressure, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a coagulation within a living body, comprising:
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a catheter for injecting into said living body a medicinal liquid for dissolving said coagulation within said living body, sucking the fluid within said living body containing said medicinal liquid and discharging said fluid out of the living body; a vibrating wave observing apparatus for observing the ultrasonic wave image of the observed part within said living body; a vibrating wave generating apparatus for applying vibrating waves to accelerate the dissolution of the coagulation to the treated part within said living body; and a supporting apparatus for supporting said ultrasonic wave observing apparatus and vibrating wave generating apparatus, said supporting apparatus including a moving means for moving said observing apparatus and vibrating wave generating apparatus so as to selectively arrange said observing part of said observing apparatus and said treating part of said vibrating wave generating apparatus in any desired part of said living body. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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37. A dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a thickened mass within a living body, comprising:
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an injecting means for injecting into said living body a medicinal liquid for dissolving said thickened mass within said living body; a sucking means for sucking the fluid within said living body containing said medicinal liquid and discharging said fluid out of the living body; and a controlling means for controlling said injecting means and sucking means so as to make an injecting step of injecting said medicinal liquid into said living body by operating said injecting means and a sucking step of discharging out of the living body said fluid within the living body containing said coagulation dissolved by said medicinal liquid and said medicinal liquid by operating said sucking means; said controlling means controlling said injecting means and sucking means so as to provide a medicinal liquid movement pausing period for radiating vibrating waves toward said thickened mass between said injecting step and sucking step, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass. - View Dependent Claims (38)
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39. A dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a gallstone within a gallbladder, comprising:
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an injecting means for injecting into said gallbladder a medicinal liquid for dissolving said gallstone within said gallbladder; a sucking means for sucking the fluid within said gallbladder containing said medicinal liquid and discharging said fluid; and a controlling means for controlling said injecting means and sucking means so as to repeat as one unit at least three steps including an injecting step of injecting said medicinal liquid into said gallbladder by operating said injecting means, a leaving step of leaving said medicinal liquid within said gallbladder by stopping the operation of said injecting means and making the operation of dissolving said gallstone with said left medicinal liquid and a sucking step of discharging out of the gallbladder the fluid within said gallbladder containing said medicinal liquid having ended said dissolving operation by operating said sucking means; said controlling means controlling said injecting means and sucking means so as to provide a pausing step for sucking the increased part of said fluid by the gall having flowed into said gallbladder, as required, by operating said sucking means after said sucking step, wherein said medicinal liquid is replaced with fresh medicinal liquid before said medicinal liquid is saturated with said thickened mass. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41)
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