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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2007
Vladimir Mitelberg, Austin, TX (US);
Donald K. Jones, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
David Y. Yuan, Austin, TX (US);
Brett E. Naglreiter, Austin, TX (US);
Dennis L. Mcwilliams, Austin, TX (US);
Pankaj J. Pasricha, Houston, TX (US);
Vladimir Mitelberg, Austin, TX (US);
Donald K. Jones, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
David Y. Yuan, Austin, TX (US);
Brett E. Naglreiter, Austin, TX (US);
Dennis L. McWilliams, Austin, TX (US);
Pankaj J. Pasricha, Houston, TX (US);
Apollo Endosurgery, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Instruments, systems, implants, and methods are provided for performing submucosal medical procedures in a desired area of the digestive tract using endoscopy. Instruments include a safe access needle injection instrument, a submucosal tunneling instrument, a submucosal dissection instrument, and a mucosal resection device. A submucosal implant device for diagnosing and treating disorders of the body may be implanted. A passive submucosal implant device may take the form of a drug delivery depot in which a therapeutic agent within the depot elutes from the depot according to a predetermined elution profile. An active submucosal implant device may take the form of a drug delivery device that incorporates a self-contained diagnostic system to determine the appropriate delivery time and dosage of a therapeutic agent to be administered.