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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Applicant:
Taris Biomedical Llc, Lexington, MA (US);
Inventor:
Dennis Giesing, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Assignee:
TARIS Biomedical LLC, Lexington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 31/00 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01); A61K 31/7068 (2006.01); A61K 45/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 31/002 (2013.01); A61K 9/0034 (2013.01); A61K 31/7068 (2013.01); A61K 45/06 (2013.01); A61M 2205/04 (2013.01); A61M 2210/1085 (2013.01); A61M 2210/166 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, devices, and medicaments that include a drug are provided for use in the treatment of the prostate by locally administering the drug into the bladder of a patient to achieve a sustained concentration of the drug in urine in the bladder sufficient to produce a therapeutic concentration of the drug in the prostate. The drug may be delivered into the bladder from an intravesical drug delivery device inserted into the bladder, wherein the device continuously releases the drug into the urine in the bladder over an extended period of hours or days.