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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2003
Samuel J. Epstein, Watertown, MA (US);
Wendy Naimark, Cambridge, MA (US);
Toby Freyman, Waltham, MA (US);
Samuel J. Epstein, Watertown, MA (US);
Wendy Naimark, Cambridge, MA (US);
Toby Freyman, Waltham, MA (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A device, system, and method for direct delivery of a therapeutic to a target site that utilizes the non-Newtonian characteristics of shear thinning and shear thickening to allow easy passage of a therapeutic through a delivery lumen yet facilitate retention of the therapeutic in the target site. The device, system, and method includes increasing the shear rate or shear stress of a non-Newtonian fluid having therapeutic properties thereby increasing or decreasing the viscosity of the non-Newtonian fluid.