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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ravinder K Mittal, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Assignee:
University of Virginia Alumni Patents Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128733 ; 128780 ; 128748 ;
Abstract
A manometric catheter which includes a sleeve device segment and attached to this sleeve device segment are two metal electrodes. This design of the manometric catheter has the capability of measuring simultaneous mechanical and electrical events in the human sphincters.