Surgery – Female reproductory tract shields – supports – or birth... – Fallopian occluders
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-11
2006-07-11
Bennett, Henry (Department: 3743)
Surgery
Female reproductory tract shields, supports, or birth...
Fallopian occluders
C128S830000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07073504
ABSTRACT:
A device and method of using the device for contraception or sterilization and particularly for reversible contraception by occluding a reproductive lumen to prevent the passage of reproductive cells through the lumen for a desired period of time until the patient wishes to become fertile again and then be reopened. The occluding member preferably comprises a tubular framework formed from a shape memory material configured to be implanted in a reproductive lumen. The occluding member is implanted within a body lumen, secured to the wall of the reproductive lumen and then collapsed to collapse the wall and occlude the lumen. Alternatively, the occluding member may be collapsed upon a solid plug. The closure of the reproductive lumen may be reversed by introducing a balloon catheter and by a series of inflations of the balloon reexpanding the collapsed occluding member or by removing the plug. The occluding member and the plug may be configured to facilitate endothelialization, to provoke an inflammatory responses or to deliver a drug.
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Callister Jeffrey P.
Harges Denise S.
Tremulis William S.
AMS Research Corporation
Bennett Henry
Jimenez José W.
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
Ragonese Andrea M.
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