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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl), Lausanne, CH;
Inventors:
Marco Pisano, Lausanne, CH;
Valentina Triacca, Lausanne, CH;
Assignee:
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Lausanne, CH;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 27/002 (2013.01); A61M 2202/0405 (2013.01); A61M 2205/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.