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Anal incontinence treatment with energy transfer device

  • US 6,454,698 B1
  • Filed: 02/10/2000
  • Issued: 09/24/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An anal incontinence treatment apparatus, comprising:

  • an energy transmission device for wireless transmission of energy of a first form from outside a patient'"'"'s body;

    an operable restriction device adapted to be implanted in the patient to engage the colon or rectum to form a restricted fecal passageway in the colon or rectum, said restriction device operable in response to a second energy form different than the first form energy to vary the restricted passageway; and

    an energy transfer device adapted to be implanted in the patient for transferring energy of the first form transmitted by said energy transmission device into energy of the second form, wherein said energy transfer device comprises at least one element having a positive region and a negative region, and creating an energy field between said positive and negative regions when exposed to the first form energy transmitted by said energy transmission device, so that said energy field produces the energy of the second form.

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