Bone treatment systems and methods
First Claim
1. A method of treating an abnormal vertebra comprising:
- providing a flow source for providing a bone cement flow into a vertebral body through an introducer, a controller for control of the bone cement flow and an energy source for heating the bone cement; and
flowing bone cement into the vertebral body wherein the controller adjusts a cement delivery parameter in response to a measured characteristic of the bone cement;
wherein the controller controls aspiration parameters within an aspiration channel in communication with an interior of the vertebra.
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Abstract
The present invention relates in certain embodiments to medical devices for treating vertebral compression fractures. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to instruments and methods for controllably restoring vertebral body height by controlling the flow of bone cement into the interior of a vertebra and the application of forces causes by the cement flow. An exemplary system utilizes Rf energy in combination a conductive bone cement for selectively polymerizing the inflow plume to increase the viscosity of the cement. In one aspect of the invention, the system utilizes a controller to control bone cement flow parameters to either, allow or disallow cement interdigitation into cancellous bone. A method of the invention includes pulsing the flows of bone cement wherein high acceleration of the flow pulses can apply expansion forces across the surface of the cement plume to reduce a vertebral fracture.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of treating an abnormal vertebra comprising:
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providing a flow source for providing a bone cement flow into a vertebral body through an introducer, a controller for control of the bone cement flow and an energy source for heating the bone cement; and flowing bone cement into the vertebral body wherein the controller adjusts a cement delivery parameter in response to a measured characteristic of the bone cement; wherein the controller controls aspiration parameters within an aspiration channel in communication with an interior of the vertebra. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of treating an abnormal vertebra comprising:
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providing a flow source for providing a bone cement flow into a vertebral body through an introducer, a controller for control of the bone cement flow and an energy source for heating the bone cement; and flowing bone cement into the vertebral body wherein the controller adjusts a cement delivery parameter in response to a measured characteristic of the bone cement; wherein the controller adjusts at least one of electromagnetic energy and ultrasound energy delivered from the energy source to an emitter adjacent the cement flow. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of treating an abnormal vertebra comprising:
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providing a flow source for providing a bone cement flow into a vertebral body through an introducer, a controller for control of the bone cement flow and a radiofrequency (Rf) energy source for heating the bone cement; and flowing bone cement into the vertebral body wherein the controller adjusts a cement delivery parameter in response to a measured characteristic of the bone cement; wherein the controller adjusts radiofrequency (Rf) energy delivered from the Rf energy source to the emitter. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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