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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2018
Frederick H. Sklar, Dallas, TX (US);
Frederick H. Sklar, Dallas, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus () for minimally-invasive, including non-invasive, prevention and/or treatment of hydrocephalus and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the apparatus (), a housing () is sized for superjacent contact with a skull having a fontanel. Within the housing (), a compartment () includes a pressure applicator (), such as a fluid-filled bladder (), under the control of a pressure regulator (). The pressure applicator () is configured to selectively apply an external pressure to the fontanel. The compartment () includes a pressure sensor () configured to measure intracranial pulse pressure of the fontanel. Further, in one embodiment, the apparatus () can cause pulse pressure modulation by adjusting the intracranial pulse pressure via the pressure applicator (). This enables a non-invasive measurement of the pulse pressure and modulation thereof in infants, for example.