238 results about "Kidney stones" patented technology

A surgical extractor for removing objects from a body including, for example, calculi, such as kidney stones and gall stones. The extractor includes a handle at a proximal end with a slider for operation by a physician. At the distal end the extractor includes a plurality of wires with each wire comprising a first portion having an individual strand and a second portion comprising a plurality of filaments. When a retaining sheath is retracted, the wires, formed of a shape memory material such as stainless steel, expand such that each of strands assume a spaced relationship to define a first section of a basket and the plurality of the filaments assume a spaced relationship to define a second section of the basket. The use of a basket formed by wires having a first section having an individual strand and a second section having the plurality of filaments promotes capture of objects within the body by having widely spaced wires in the first section, retention of such objects in the second section by multiplying the number of contacts with entrapped object, and improved selective release of such objects without any deleterious effect on the reliability or size of the extractor. Additionally, use of the basket enables improved dislodgment and capture of embedded or impacted objects.

An electrosurgical system and method for treating hard and soft tissues in the body comprises a shaft, a distal end section, an active electrode associated with the distal end section, a first fluid supply adapted to deliver a first electrically conductive fluid to the target site, and a second fluid supply adapted to deliver a second electrically conductive fluid to the active electrode. The system is adapted to treat a wide variety of hard tissues such as, for example, bones, calcified structures, calcified deposits, teeth, plaque, kidney-stones, gall-stones and other types of tissue by generating plasma in the vicinity of the active electrode, and applying the plasma to the tissue or structures.

Methods and devices for at least reducing the mass of, if not dissolving, renal calculi in situ are provided. In the subject methods, a renal calculus is contacted, e.g. flushed, with an acidic dissolution solution in situ, where the acidic dissolution solution is a solution of a strong, inorganic acid, e.g. hydrochloric acid. In many embodiments, the renal calculus is first enclosed in an isolated local environment of a device prior contact with the dissolution solution. Also provided are novel devices and kits for practicing the subject invention.

The present invention relates to a method and transdermal pharmaceutical composition for preventing magnesium deficiency or imbalances associated with magnesium deficiency including diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, cardiac arrhythmias, acute myocardial infarction, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, preeclampsia, dysautonomia, mitral valve prolapse, asthma, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, muscle spasms and cramping, premenstrual syndrome, osteoporosis, kidney stones, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. The transdermal pharmaceutical composition includes a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of magnesium and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. A therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of zinc a vitamin such as B-complex vitamin, a carotenoid, a mineral, or a combination thereof may also be included in the transdermal pharmaceutical composition. A therapeutically effective amount of progesterone may also be included in the transdermal pharmaceutical composition. The transdermal pharmaceutical composition may be topically administered to prevent magnesium deficiency or imbalances caused by magnesium deficiency.

The present invention improves significantly the success rate of lithotripsy and reduces the risk of tissue damage, by injecting temporary plugs in front and behind a concretion (for extracorporeal lithotripsy) or behind a concretion (for intracorporeal lithotripsy). One aspect of the present invention relates to injecting an inverse thermosensitive polymer solution into a lumen, thereby preventing the migration of a concretion, or its fragments, upon extracorporeal or intracorporeal lithotripsy.

Occluding structures may be created within a body lumen by advancing a length of material distally through the body lumen. By drawing a distal location on the advanced length of material in a proximal direction, the material may be compacted into a structure which at least partially occludes the lumen. The occluding structure may be used to remove kidney stones from the ureter in conjunction with lithotripsy and irrigation.

A rigid extractor is revealed, a rigid device for use in percutaneous procedures to remove kidney stones directly from the kidneys. The rigid extractor uses a handle fixed to an outer rigid cannula, and an inner cannula to control an extraction device that may be removable from the inner cannula. The extractor is desirably used with a fluoroscope, in which the surgeon maneuvers the extractor with the aid of a view of the operating field provided by the fluoroscope. The surgeon then maneuvers the extractor to grasp the kidney stones and remove from the patient. The extractor may also be used with a nephroscope. The device may be used with a removable extraction device such as a basket, a grasper a pair of jaws, or a pair of scissors.

According to an aspect of the present invention, urological medical devices are provided, which contain one or more urologically beneficial agents selected from alpha-adrenergic blockers, calcium channel blockers, and combinations thereof, among others. The urological devices are adapted for implantation or insertion into a subject's urinary tract, whereupon at least a portion of the urologically beneficial agent is released. Such agents are urologically beneficial, for example, in that they may relieve pain and / or discomfort associated with the medical device and / or act as stone expulsion agents (i.e., they facilitate stone passage), among other benefits. According to an aspect of the present invention, a method of treating kidney stones is provided which comprises: (a) diagnosing the presence of kidney stones within a subject and (b) implanting or inserting a urological medical device into the subject which contains at least one urologically beneficial agent. The medical device is adapted to release the at least one urologically beneficial agent in vivo in an amount effective to promote kidney stone expulsion.

Occluding structures may be created within a body lumen by advancing a length of material distally through the body lumen. By drawing a distal location on the advanced length of material in a proximal direction, the material may be compacted into a structure which at least partially occludes the lumen. The occluding structure may be used to remove kidney stones from the ureter in conjunction with lithotripsy and irrigation.

Food products fortified with a therapeutically effective amount of milk mineral are administered for the treatment of high blood pressure, stroke, obesity, kidney stones, colon cancer, breast cancer, head and neck tumors, premenstrual syndrome, postpartum depression, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, Type-2 diabetes, depression, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, attention deficit disorder, migraine headaches, kidney disease, hypercholesterolaemia, congestive heart failure, or immune deficiency.

The invention discloses a 3D kidney model printing method for kidney stone surgical simulation teaching. The printing method comprises the following steps: acquiring a high-density stone three-dimensional rebuilt model by utilizing MIMICS software by virtue of a scanning period of CTU, acquiring a three-dimensional rebuilt model of kidney skin and arteriovenous blood vessels by virtue of an arteriovenous enhanced period, acquiring a three-dimensional rebuilt model of pelvis and ureter by virtue of secretion enhanced period of pelvis, acquiring a kidney three-dimensional rebuilt model comprising kidney skin, kidney medulla, kidney artery and vein, pelvis and calices and ureter, and finally combining the three-dimensional rebuilt model of each part to obtain a complete kidney three-dimensional rebuilt model. By adopting the method, the problems that percutaneous nephrolithotomy is used as an effective and safe minimally-invasive surgery, to select an optimum puncture point is difficulty and a key point in the surgical operation, the formation of a three-dimensional image in the brain by virtue of a two-dimensional image needs long-term training and is prone to missing small dissection structures can be effectively solved.

Methods and devices for at least reducing the mass of, if not dissolving, renal calculi in situ are provided. In the subject methods, a renal calculus is contacted, e.g. flushed, with an acidic dissolution solution in situ, where the acidic dissolution solution is a solution of a strong, inorganic acid, e.g. hydrochloric acid. In many embodiments, the renal calculus is first enclosed in an isolated local environment of a device prior contact with the dissolution solution. Also provided are novel devices and kits for practicing the subject invention.

The invention discloses a novel traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating the symptoms of renal calculus and a preparation method thereof. The traditional Chinese medicine composition mainly comprises the following raw materials of medicines: scaly anteater, rhizoma sparganii, rhizoma zedoariae, sweetgum fruit, immature bitter orange, Chinese eaglewood, dalbergia wood, tangerine peel, TurmericRoot-tuber, chicken's gizzard-membrane, radix notoginseng, rhizoma ligustici wallichii, red peony root, peach kernel, safflower, logwood, mastic, myrrh, draconis sanguis, Chinese polyphaga, rhizoma cyperi, tuckahoe, radix puerariae, rhizoma alismatis, manchurian dutchmanspipe, japanese fern spore, semen lepidii, talcum, rosa banksiae, green tangerine peel, toosendan fruit, areca peel, dahurian angelica root, rhizoma atractylodis, schisandra fruit and motherwort. The traditional Chinese medicine composition can be prepared into any common oral preparation according to a conventional traditional Chinese medicine preparation method. The invention can obviously improve the symptoms of the metabolic balance maladjustment of colloids and crystals, infection, nutrition metabolic disturbance, the calculus and the urine stasis of the urinary system, lumbago, renal colic, bloody urine and the like in the body of a patient with the symptoms of the renal calculus, can improve the symptoms of gout, diabetes, hypertension, acute pyelonephritis, chronic renal failure, uremia and the like caused by the symptoms of the renal calculus and has definite clinical curative effect, obvious curative effect and quick acting. Because of basically adopting medicine-food homologous medicines specified by the dispensatory of China for combination, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the advantages of low cost, no toxic or side effect basically and the like.

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating urinary system stones. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared by longhairy antenoron herb, Japanese climbing fern spore, clematis root, cassia seed, chicken's gizzard-membrane, officinal magnolia bark, reed rhizome, Chinese thorowax root, giant knotweed rhizome, talc, bitter orange, virgate wormwood herb, rhubarb, pyrrosia leaf, cluster mallow fruit, medicinal cyathula root and / or a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention further relates to a preparation method of the traditional Chinese medicine composition. The traditional Chinese medicine composition has the efficacies of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and kidney, removing dampness, relieving masses, regulating qi, activating stagnancy, softening hardness, resolving stones, treating stranguria and expelling stones and is used for treating kidney stones, gall-stones, ureteral stones, bladder stones and the like.

A nutraceutical formula and food-based medicinal composition is provided comprising homeopathic ingredients in combination with traditional herbal and nutraceutical ingredients for relieving the symptoms associated with presence or formation of kidney stones and gallstones. The formulation includes ingredients balanced in a synergistic manner to elicit complementary effects which both reduce the symptoms of kidney stones and gallstones and provide the potential to eliminate their occurrence in the body and prevent future recurrence. Methods of making and using core medicinal formulations and food-based compositions are also described.

The present invention relates to methods of treating subjects suffering from nephrolithiasis by administering to a subject in need of treatment thereof a therapeutically effective amount of at least one xanthine oxidoreductase inhibiting compound or salt thereof.

The invention discloses a Chinese medicament for treating kidney stones, which consists of the following raw material medicaments in part by weight: 6 to 8 parts of pyrrosia leaf, 6 to 8 parts of white paeony root, 6 to 8 parts of liquoric root, 6 to 8 parts of plantain herb, 6 to 8 parts of Indian buead, 6 to 8 parts of oriental waterplantain rhizome, 6 to 8 parts of longhairy antenoron herb, 6 to 8 parts of fennel fruit, 6 to 8 parts of coix seed, 6 to 8 parts of doubleteeth pubescent angilica root, 3 to 5 parts of oyster, 3 to 5 parts of pink herb, 3 to 5 parts of rhizoma corydalis, 3 to 5 parts of clematis root, 3 to 5 parts of Chinese eaglewood, 3 to 5 parts of talc, 3 to 5 parts of rice bean, 3 to 5 parts of anemone clematis stem and 3 to 5 parts of medicinal cyathula root. The Chinese medicament for treating the kidney stones has the effects of freeing channels and activating collaterals, activating blood and dissolving stasis, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, softening hardness to dissipate stagnation, lowing lipid and dissolving stones, improving fluid secretion and contraction functions of capsule walls, constantly pushing down stones, and achieving the effect of quickly expelling the stones from bodies.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating renal calculus and vesical calculus, which uses the following raw medicinal materials in parts by weight as active components: 25-30 parts of otolithum sciaenae, 25-30 parts of endothelium corneum gigeriae galli, 25-30 parts of herba pyrrosiae, 20-25 parts of Lygodium japonicum, 20-30 parts of semen plantaginis, 20-30 parts of desmodium, 30-35 parts of taraxacum, 10-15 parts of fructus meliae toosendan, and 25-30 parts of radix curcumae. By using otolithum sciaenae and endothelium corneum gigeriae galli as the monarch drugs, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the effects of removing calculus, benefiting micturition and diminishing inflammation; by using herba pyrrosiae, Lygodium japonicum, semen plantaginis and desmodium as the ministerial drugs, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the effects of benefiting micturition and clearing away heat; by using taraxacum and fructus meliae toosendan as the assisting drugs, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the effects of clearing away heat and toxicity and removing tumescence; by using radix curcumae as the conductant drug, the traditional Chinese medicine composition has the effects of promoting qi circulation to disperse blood stasis and eliminating cardiopyrexia. The traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating renal calculus and vesical calculus has the advantages of peculiar compatibility, ingenious medicine employment, favorable curative effect, low curative cost and no side effect, and can treat both renal calculus and vesical calculus.

The present invention relates to identifying the risk of a subject developing renal stones utilizing an assessment of PTH agonist, antagonist and / or total PTH levels, optionally together with an assessment of serum and / or urine calcium levels and / or other analytes. The present description further relates to monitoring and guiding treatment for renal stones and kits useful therefore.

Systems and methods are provided for determining the composition of a kidney stone from a medical image. A feature extractor is configured to provide a plurality of features from the medical image. The plurality of features includes either a pair of an attenuation values including a first attenuation value from a first location in or on the kidney stone and a second attenuation value from a second location in or on the kidney stone or a function of the first and second attenuation values. The second location is spatially distinct from the first location. A classifier is configured to select one of a plurality of classes for the kidney stone from the plurality of features. Each class represents a specific constituent material. A user interface is configured to display the class to a user in a human comprehensible form

The invention provides a composite fruit and vegetable fermentation composition and application thereof. The composition is prepared by fermenting raw materials selected from fruits, vegetables, algae and the like. The fruit and vegetable fermentation composition can effectively prevent or eliminate kidney stones.

A composition comprising a powder mixture of potassium citrate and calcium citrate as mixtures of pure chemical salts and methods of making and using the composition are disclosed. The composition is useful for the treatment and prevention of kidney stones and osteoporosis and better delivers potassium and calcium than commonly used potassium and calcium supplements.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating kidney stone. The traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating kidney stone comprises: by weight, 10 to 20 parts of poria, 5 to 15 parts of largehead atractylodes rhizome, 10 to 20 parts of cortex magnoliae officinalis, 10 to 20 parts of eucommia, 10 to 15 parts of Chinese yam, 5 to 15 parts of China dodder, 10 to 30 parts of christina loosestrife, 10 to 30 parts of Japanese climbing fern spore, 10 to 20 parts of endothelium corneum gigeriae galli, 10 to 30 parts of polygonum aviculare, 5 to 15 parts of cape jasmine fruit, 5 to 15 parts of weeping forsythia capsule, 10 to 20 parts of Jianqu and 5 to 10 parts of licorice. The traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating kidney stone has dual effects of qi-tonifying kidney-tonifying urinary calculus-removal and dampness-removal stranguria-treatment urinary calculus-removal, can realize thorough treatment on kidney stone and prevention of recurrence of calculus according to pathogenesis of kidney deficiency and kidney damp heat of patients with kidney stones, has a reasonable formula, clear treatment effects and small toxic or side effects, and is prepared from the traditional Chinese medicine raw materials having wide sources and low costs.

Nanobacteria contribute to pathological calcification in the human and animal body, including diseases such as kidney stones, salivary gland stones, dental pulp stones and atherosclerosis. The present invention provides methods for sterilizing articles contaminated with nanobacteria. The present invention also provides methods of treating patients infected with nanobacteria. In particular, the present invention provides a method for preventing the recurrence of kidney stones in a patient that has suffered from kidney stones, comprising administration of an antibiotic, a bisphosphonate, or a calcium chelator, either alone or in combination, in an amount effective to inhibit or prevent the growth and development of nanobacteria.

The present disclosure is directed to a medical device. Systems and methods are provided for utilizing a laser to break a kidney stones into smaller fragments and / or dust, and removing particles, stone fragments and / or stone dust from a patient. The medical device may include a delivery device including a tube, and an elongate member having a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end, wherein the elongate member is configured to move axially relative to the tube and apply suction through the distal end.

The invention relates to a medicine for treating kidney stones. The medicine is prepared from the following raw materials in parts by weight: 3-10 parts of vinegar-baked bupleurum root, 15-60 parts of raw radix paeoniae alba, 6-15 parts of immature bitter orange, 5-15 parts of vinegar-baked rhizoma cyperi, 6-15 parts of toosendan fruit, 5-20 parts of angelica sinensis, 5-15 parts of radix curcumae, 5-15 parts of corydalis tuber, 10-30 parts of desmodium, 10-30 parts of lygodium japonicum, 5-15 parts of endothelium corneum gigeriae galli, 10-30 parts of plantain seed, 10-30 parts of herba pyrrosiae, 5-15 parts of radix achyranthis bidentatae, and 3-6 parts of liquorice. The medicine is reliable in curative effect, and has the effect of removing and dissolving the kidney stones within 1cm through a treatment by traditional Chinese medicine; according to the medicine for treating the kidney stones, disclosed by the invention, the kidney stone is unlikely to regenerate; and the medicine provided by the invention has the functions of determination of etiologic factor based on differentiation by Chinese traditional treatment, examination of reason and treatment variation, treatment from the root, and stone prevention after recovery. The medicine provided by the invention is economical and practical. When being taken, the medicine provided by the invention is decocted by a normal method of decoction with water so as to be convenient to decoct and take.