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Devices for delivering substances through an extra-anatomic opening created in an airway

  • US 8,409,167 B2
  • Filed: 10/05/2006
  • Issued: 04/02/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of treating diseased lung tissue in a lung, the method comprising:

  • advancing a delivery catheter through a natural respiratory opening and into the lung;

    creating and maintaining an extra-anatomic opening in an airway wall at a target site such that patency of the extra-anatomic opening is artificially extended beyond a natural healing response; and

    delivering a substance through the extra-anatomic opening to treat a region of diseased tissue beyond the airway wall in the lung.

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