Surgery – Miscellaneous – Methods
Patent
1999-04-30
2000-08-29
Yu, Mickey
Surgery
Miscellaneous
Methods
607 2, 607 4, A61B 1900
Patent
active
06109269&
ABSTRACT:
Techniques using one or more drugs, electrical stimulation or both to treat addictions by means of an implantable signal generator and electrode and an implantable pump and catheter. A catheter is surgically implanted in selected sites in the brain to infuse the drugs, and one or more electrodes are surgically implanted in the brain at selected sites to provide electrical stimulation.
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Rise Mark T.
Kinghorn Curtis D.
Medtronic Inc.
O'Hara Kelly
Patton Harold R.
Yu Mickey
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