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Methods of reducing mucus in airways

  • US 8,443,810 B2
  • Filed: 06/20/2006
  • Issued: 05/21/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for reducing mucus production in an airway of a lung, the method comprising:

  • positioning an energy transfer device in the airway of the lung, the airway having a wall; and

    actuating the energy transfer device multiple times as the energy transfer device is moved along the airway to transfer energy along the length of the airway wall at a plurality of treatment sites to form a repeating pattern of treated segments extending along the length of the airway wall that reduces an ability of the airway tissue to secrete mucus, wherein actuating the energy transfer device is performed in a plurality of airways in different regions of the lung at different times such that an amount of time between treating the different regions of the lung lessens a healing load placed on the lung.

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