EP 3307187 A2 20180418 - DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TRANSURETHRAL BLADDER PARTITIONING
Title (en)
DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TRANSURETHRAL BLADDER PARTITIONING
Title (de)
VORRICHTUNGEN UND VERFAHREN ZUR TRANSURETHRALEN BLASENPARTITIONIERUNG
Title (fr)
DISPOSITIFS ET PROCÉDÉS POUR LA RÉSECTION TRANSURÉTRALE DE LA VESSIE
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 201562174296 P 20150611
- IB 2016000953 W 20160610
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO2016198955A2] Systems, devices, and methods to treat a urinary bladder are disclosed. An expandable member is introduced and expanded in the urinary bladder to appose one or more elongate conductors on the outer surface of the expandable member against the inner wall of the urinary bladder. The one or more elongate conductors are used to create a predetermined pattern of electrically isolated tissue regions having reduced electrical propagation such that electrical propagation through the urinary bladder as a whole is reduced. A mucus layer may be removed from the inner bladder wall prior to the ablation. Ablation may be regulated by impedance measurement with the one or more elongate conductors. The urinary bladder may be filled with a fluid to facilitate the impedance measurement.
IPC 8 full level
A61B 18/14 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
A61B 18/1485 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0022 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00517 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2090/0436 (2016.02)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 2016198955A2
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR
Designated extension state (EPC)
BA ME
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 2016198955 A2 20161215; WO 2016198955 A3 20170420; EP 3307187 A2 20180418
DOCDB simple family (application)
IB 2016000953 W 20160610; EP 16756787 A 20160610