MINIMALLY INVASIVE LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION DEVICE

A lung volume reduction system comprising an implantable device adapted to be delivered to a lung airway of a patient in a delivery configuration and to change to a deployed configuration to bend the lung airway. The system has a delivery configuration that is resiliently bendable into a plurality o...

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Hauptverfasser: WU, PATRICK, ARONSON, NATHAN, VASQUEZ, JAIME, THOMPSON, DAVID, LEHRBERG, DAVID, MATHIS, MARK
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Sprache:eng ; pol
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Zusammenfassung:A lung volume reduction system comprising an implantable device adapted to be delivered to a lung airway of a patient in a delivery configuration and to change to a deployed configuration to bend the lung airway. The system has a delivery configuration that is resiliently bendable into a plurality of shapes. The system can have a deployed configuration that has a rigid shape. Additionally, the system may be elastically strained into a deliverable shape whereby elastic recoil allows it to recover back to its manufactured shape that provides a load on lung tissue. Further shapes include: c-shape; S-shape; and Spiral, baseball seam shape.