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

  • US 8,366,652 B2
  • Filed: 02/19/2010
  • Issued: 02/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An implantable shunt system, comprising:

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

    one or more energy emitters configured to emit an energy stimulus of a character and for a time sufficient to induce apoptosis without substantially inducing necrosis of at least a portion of cells within a cerebrospinal fluid received within at least one of the one or more fluid-flow passageways;

    one or more sensors configured to detect at least one characteristic associated with the cerebrospinal fluid of the biological subject; and

    one or more computer-readable memory media having cerebrospinal fluid information configured as a data structure, the data structure including at least one of infection indication information, inflammation indication information, diseased state indication information, and diseased tissue indication information.

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