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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2001
Greg A. Lloyd, Spokane, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for treating obesity and for delivering time-released medicaments is described and which includes a plurality of space-filling portions which are sized to be received within a human patient's body and which come together in a patient's body to form a structure which provides therapeutic benefit to the patient. In the method of the present invention, the method includes providing a plurality of space-filling portions which are sized to be received within the patient's body; and inserting the space-filling portions into the body of the patient and wherein the respective space-filling portions come together following insertion into the body to form a structure providing therapeutic benefit to the patient.