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Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts

  • US 9,687,670 B2
  • Filed: 05/21/2010
  • Issued: 06/27/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A shunt assembly, comprising:

  • a body structure defining one or more fluid-flow passageways configured to receive a biological fluid of a biological subject;

    a sensor component for detecting an infectious agent proximate to the body structure;

    a sterilizing energy emitter configured to emit a sterilizing energy stimulus to the biological fluid or to the infectious agent proximate to the body structure; and

    means for reflecting at least a portion of the emitted energy stimulus within an interior of at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways.

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