Lymphatica Medtech Sa

Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Ecole Polytechnique Féderale De Lausanne (epfl)

Marco Pisano

Valentina Triacca

Mathieu Aberle

Ricardo Camilo Moreira

Systems and methods are provided for a bodily fluid management system for pumping bodily fluid such as lymph. The bodily fluid management system may include an implantable pump with a rotor having a magnetic portion and inlet and outlet tubes that connect to a fluid chamber. The fluid chamber has a volume that can be selectively reduced or increased via the rotor. The rotor is designed to periodically open and close kinking valves at each of the inlet and outlet tube to permit bodily fluid to enter the fluid chamber during an intake cycle and exit the fluid chamber during a discharge cycle. The magnetic portion of the rotor may be caused to rotate by an external controller that is positioned outside of the body and adjacent to the pump. The external controller may have a magnet that magnetically interfaces with the rotor to cause the rotor to rotate.

Systems and methods for a bodily fluid drainage system

The invention relates to a medical fluid drainage device for drainage of edematous tissues comprising at least one pumping element (), having an inlet and an outlet, at least one outlet member () having at least one lumen, connected directly or indirectly to the outlet of said pumping element and connecting said pumping element to a body cavity or to a vessel or to a subcutaneous area, and at least one inlet member () connected to said inlet of said pumping element and providing fluidic connection between said edematous tissue and said pumping element, and characterized in that the inlet member comprises at least two inlet lumens () connected in parallel to said inlet of said pumping element, each of said lumens () contains at least one fluid access region, wherein each fluid access region () being adapted to allow simultaneous edematous fluid entry from distinct regions of said edematous tissue.

Implantable internal drainage device and system for edemas

A medical fluid drainage system which may be advantageously used to actively absorb excess fluid from an interstitium in a living host and to transport it from an inlet memberin a non edematous body part out of an outlet membervia pumps () built in series, such as a distal area with functional lymphatic vessels, or directly in a lymphatic vessel, or directly in a blood vessel.

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