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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2009
Yehoshua Shachar, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Thomas C. Chen, La Canada, CA (US);
Leslie Farkas, Ojai, CA (US);
Bruce Marx, Ojai, CA (US);
David Johnson, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Laszlo Farkas, Ojai, CA (US);
Yehoshua Shachar, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Thomas C. Chen, La Canada, CA (US);
Leslie Farkas, Ojai, CA (US);
Bruce Marx, Ojai, CA (US);
David Johnson, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Laszlo Farkas, Ojai, CA (US);
Pharmaco-Kinesis Corporation, Inglewood, CA (US);
Abstract
A magnetically controlled pump is implanted into the cerebrospinal fluid of a patient and delivers a plurality of medicating agents at a controlled rate corresponding to the specific needs of the patient. The current invention comprises a flexible double walled lumen, intratumoral catheter which will be implanted. Spinal fluid drawn from the patient is analyzed. Medication is delivered on a continuous metronomic basis into the CSF via an internalized pump. CSF is removed and analyzed for VEGF and other cytokines via spectrophotometer analysis or a lab on a chip. The operation of the apparatus and hence the treatment is remotely controlled based on these measurements and displayed through an external controller.