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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2003
J. Christopher Flaherty, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joshua Makower, Los Altos, CA (US);
Philip C. Evard, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick E. Macaulay, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason B. Whitt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert C. Colloton, Cupertino, CA (US);
K. Angela Macfarlane, Cupertino, CA (US);
J. Christopher Flaherty, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joshua Makower, Los Altos, CA (US);
Philip C. Evard, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick E. MacAulay, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason B. Whitt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert C. Colloton, Cupertino, CA (US);
K. Angela Macfarlane, Cupertino, CA (US);
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
An implantable reservoir device () including an enclosed membrane () on an expandable frame () that defines a reservoir () and includes a porous region (). The reservoir device () may be deployed and expanded within a blood vessel, and may be filled in situ or prefilled with a drug that passes through the porous region (). Alternatively, a pair of expandable endovascular blockers () may be used to isolate a section of a blood vessel which may be filled with a drug that may be absorbed by the surrounding tissue.