Method for causing a stricture of a body passageway

Details Method for causing a stricture of a body passageway Method for causing a stricture of a body passageway

1998-09-30

2000-12-05

Cohen, Lee

Surgery

Instruments

Electrical application

606 14, 606 21, 607 99, 607105, 607113, A61B 1814

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061560324

ABSTRACT:
This invention provides for an apparatus and method to cause a stricture in a body passageway. For example, urinary incontinence and vesicoureteral reflux can be treated by inserting an energy-delivering probe into the body passageway of the urinary tract and applying energy to an arcuate segment of the wall of the body passageway to cause injury to the wall, hyperplasia of the tissue surrounding the wall, and stricture of the body passageway. Other applications for the apparatus and method of the present invention includes treatment of gastro-esophageal reflux and fecal incontinence.

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patent: 5681282 (1997-10-01), Eggers et al.
patent: 6056744 (2000-05-01), Edwards

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