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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
May. 08, 2001
Brian J. Mosel, Dublin, CA (US);
Loren L. Roy, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank W. Ingle, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stanley Levy, Saratoga, CA (US);
SURx, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods for diagnosing and/or treating urinary incontinence can accurately and reliably monitor both a vesicle pressure and a maximum urethral pressure of a patient during an abdominal pressure pulse so as to determine relationships between these pressures. Alignment between the location of maximum urethral pressure and a pressure sensor of a catheter can be maintained using an anchoring structure having a surface which engages a tissue surface along the bladder neck, urethra, or external meatus, which move with the urethra during abdominal pressure pulses. A pressuregram is generated graphically showing an increase in urethral pressure relative to an increase in vesicle pressure, and is often displayed in real time to a system operator adjacent the patient. Quantitative and/or qualitative diagnostic output allow selective remodeling of the patient's support structure so that the incontinence is inhibited.