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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2008
Jonathan A. Coe, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Christine Chen, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Juan S. Ezolino, Weston, FL (US);
Kevin D. Felder, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Eric Thompson, Pleasant Plain, OH (US);
Jonathan A. Coe, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Christine Chen, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Juan S. Ezolino, Weston, FL (US);
Kevin D. Felder, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Eric Thompson, Pleasant Plain, OH (US);
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
Various methods and devices are provided for reorienting an implantable port. In one embodiment, an implantable port is provided and includes a base adapted to be anchored to tissue, and a housing pivotally mounted on the base and having a septum formed therein and adapted to receive fluid and to provide access to a fluid reservoir formed within the housing. In an exemplary embodiment, the housing can be pivotally mounted to the base using a ball and socket joint. For example, at least one of a distal surface of the housing and a proximal surface of the base is convex, and the other one of the distal surface of the housing and the proximal surface of the base is concave.