100 results about "Submucosa" patented technology

Medical devices and methods are designed to bias stretch receptors in the stomach wall of a patient to treat obesity. Biasing of the stretch receptors by pre-stretching induces an early sensation of satiety, causing the patient to consume less food. Biasing of the stretch receptors can be achieved by the placement of bulking devices within the wall of the stomach, e.g., in the mucosa, submucosa or muscle layer. The bulking devices may be expandable and, in some embodiments, may take the form of a hydrogel prosthesis that expands following implantation in a wall of the stomach.

To provide a medical device and a method both of which can suitably embolize a bronchus in a target part by embolizing the bronchus with (at least a part of) a living tissue during surgical treatment of lung emphysema. For example, an injection material is injected into a submucosa by the use of a syringe, and in the injected part, a swelling swollen into the internal cavity of the bronchus is formed to tightly seal the living tissue of the bronchus or a bronchiole, thereby embolizing a target bronchus.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of excising tissue including injecting fluid into the submucosa to raise targeted tissue. A first electrode is positioned below the targeted tissue within the injected fluid and a second electrode is positioned adjacent a surface of the raised targeted tissue opposite the first electrode. Electrical current is applied between the first and second electrodes and the targeted tissue is excised with the second electrode.

A method for surgical repair of damaged or diseased head and neck tissues is described. In one aspect of the invention tissue graft constructs comprising vertebrate submucosa or vertebrate basement membrane materials are used to repair and promote growth of endogenous vocal cord tissue.

A composition comprising enzymatically digested submucosa of a warm-blooded vertebrate and a method of making that composition is described. More particularly the submucosa is enzymatically digested and gelled to form a shape retaining gel matrix suitable for inducing cell proliferation and growth both in vivo and in vitro.

A graft prostheses (11), materials and method for implanting, transplanting, replacing, or repairing a part of a patient. The graft prosthesis includes a purified, collagen-based matrix structure removed from a submucosa tissue source. The submucosa tissue source is purified by disinfection and removal steps to deactivate and remove contaminants, thereby making the purified structure biocompatible and suitable for grafting on and/or in a patient.

A treatment instrument for an endoscope is provided that is suitable for cutting submucosa in endoscopic submucosal dissection. The treatment instrument for an endoscope includes a treatment portion having a cutting unit at a tip of an insertion portion that is to be inserted into the body. The main unit of the treatment portion is formed in a sawtooth shape having a peak portion and a valley portion. An electrode plate serving as the cutting unit is provided in the valley portion.

Described are modified submucosa and other extracellular matrix materials incorporating an amount of bound, exogenous fibronectin. Further described are such materials also having an amount of exogenous heparin bound to the exogenous fibronectin, and also potentially an amount of an exogenous bioactive material, such as a growth factor, bound to the exogenous heparin. Such materials may be used in methods for the treatment of wounds in patients.

Described, in certain aspects of the invention, are multilaminate medical graft products, as well as methods for preparing and using the same. An illustrative multilaminate medical graft product of the invention comprises a first layer of remodelable extracellular matrix (ECM) material bonded to a second layer of remodelable ECM material, wherein the first material layer is enriched with a growth factor relative to the second material layer. Such a remodelable ECM material may be comprised of submucosa from a warm-blooded vertebrate, for example, porcine small intestinal submucosa (SIS).

Methods for maintaining patency in a bronchus of a patient are presented. A catheter is positioned within the bronchus. A target region of one or more of a bronchial wall, submucosa, media, and adventitia is punctured at or adjacent a location of a debulked bronchial carcinoma with an injection needle disposed on a distal end of the catheter. Such puncturing is achieved by expanding a balloon disposed on the distal end of the catheter. The balloon is comprised of at least two materials of different elastic modulus, which allows for a flexible but relatively non-distensible, unfolding component of the balloon as well as an elastomeric, inflatable component of the balloon. Through the injection needle, an amount of cytotoxic, cytostatic, or anti-neoplastic agent is delivered to the target region. The delivered amount is effective to limit by a therapeutically beneficial amount recurrent bronchial occlusion due to recurrence of the bronchial carcinoma.

Described are tissue graft constructs that include submucosa and other extracellular matrix materials that incorporate a number of exogenous proteins. Further described are methods for making tissue graft constructs that include stripping endogenous heparin binding proteins from a porcine graft material and thereafter binding one or more human growth factors to the native heparin molecules that are retained within the graft material. Such graft materials may be used in methods for the treatment of wounds in patients.

The invention discloses an application of the reagent for detecting clostridium symbiosum in preparing an early colorectal cancer diagnostic kit. According to the diagnostic kit, DNA of bacteria in excrement is extracted and a quantitative polymerase chain reaction is conducted so that the feature of relative abundance of the clostridium symbiosum can be acquired, and diagnosis of early colorectal cancers (limited to the colon cancer and the rectal cancer of submucosa) is conducted with the feature as a basis. Compared with noninvasive colorectal cancer screening methods applied to clinics at present and applied for a patent, the regent is completely noninvasive, operation is relatively easy and low in price, the colorectal cancers can be predicted more accurately, and the area under curve (AUC value) of an ROC curve is 0.70 or above.

Systems, devices, and methods for maintaining patency in a bronchus of a patient are presented. A catheter is positioned within the bronchus. A target region of one or more of a bronchial wall, submucosa, media, and adventitia is punctured with an injection needle disposed on a distal end of the catheter. Such puncturing is achieved by expanding a balloon disposed on the distal end of the catheter. The balloon may be comprised of at least two materials of different elastic modulus, which allows for a flexible but relatively non-distensible, unfolding component of the balloon as well as an elastomeric, inflatable component of the balloon. Through the injection needle, an amount of one or more crosslinking agents is delivered to the target region. The delivered amount is effective to provide structural support for the bronchial wall, substituting for the bronchial cartilage thereby treating bronchomalacia.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicinal enema for treating chronic colitis. According to the traditional Chinese medicinal science, the pathogenesis of chronic colitis is mainly due to syndromes of dampness-heat due to spleen deficiency and qi depression to blood stasis, especially develops in colonic mucosa and submucosa inflammation and ulcer changes, and is characterized by stomachache, diarrhea, mucous bloody stool and tenesmus in clinic. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicines, which have effects of clearing heat, drying damp, diminishing swelling, promoting granulation,removing pattogenic heat from the blood and toxic material from the body, relieving diarrhea, diminishing inflammation, resolving tetany and relieving pain, including traditional Chinese medicinal Swamp Mahogany Leaf, champion dutchmanspipe root, mongolian oak bark, Scutellaria baicalensis, cortex fraxini, Cape jasmine, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, licorice root, Codonopsis pilosula, cortex albiziae, fruits of Litsea rubescens, cortex cinnamomi and hurricane lamp, are selected to be made into the enema. Through clinical tests of our public health centre, the total effective rate of theenema reaches 96.3% and it is obviously better than a control group. In addition, patients have no adverse reaction after taking the medicine. Therefore, the medicine is worth of clinical popularization and application.

An endoscope device (1), which comprises a light source (4), an endoscope (3), a processor (7) and a viewing monitor (5). The light source (4) switches the illumination light from an excitation light (EX) for exciting a connective tissue in the submucosa of a tissue within a body cavity to a narrowband light (NBa) that is absorbed by a blood vessel (64) running through the submucosa (62) or muscularis propria (63) and a narrowband light (NBb) that is absorbed by a substance topically injected into the submucosa (62). The processor (7) generates multiple image signals, said image signals having been obtained by taking images with CCD2 of the endoscope (3), and the viewing monitor (5) synthesizes and displays multiple images.

The invention relates to a uterine cavity implant as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The uterine cavity implant is characterized by having a bagged structure. The uterine cavity implant comprises a substrate material of animal small intestine submucosa subjected to decellularization treatment. An implantable medical device for preventing and treating intrauterine adhesion comprises a biological tissue substrate material. The present decellularization technology for a biological repairing material is improved; compared with the present product, the biological tissue substrate material provided by the invention has the advantages of lower DNA residual quantity, lower immunogenicity, higher anti-infection capacity and higher repairing capacity; and the uterine cavity implant is beneficial to the recovering of tissues, such as, uterine cavity base layer, submucosa and mucous layer. Besides, the invention prepares the biological repairing material into the uterine cavity built-in structure which is used for isolating wound surfaces, repairing uterine cavity tissues and reducing scar forming, so that the intrauterine adhesion problem is solved, and the accordingly generated sterility problem also can be solved.

The invention belongs to the field of high polymer materials and medical equipment, and particularly relates to a formula and a preparation technology of a submucosal injection sodium hyaluronate solution for an endoscope. According to the formula of the sodium hyaluronate solution, the sodium hyaluronate solution is prepared from sodium hyaluronate, sodium chloride, sodium hydrogen phosphate, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, methylene blue and water for injection. The preparation technology of the sodium hyaluronate solution includes the steps that firstly, sodium chloride is stirred and dissolved in a burdening tank, then sodium hyaluronate is added, temperature is raised to 40 DEG C, and stirring is performed; sodium hydrogen phosphate and sodium dihydrogen phosphate are sequentially added in, and stirring continues; secondly, the pH value of material liquid is measured; the pH value of the material liquid is adjusted to reach 7.0-8.0; thirdly, methylene blue is added and stirred, water is supplemented, and volume is metered; fourthly, filtering is performed through a microfiltration membrane ; fifthly, the mixture is encapsulated in an ampoule or a glass bottle and sterilized with steam at the temperature of 121 DEG C for 15 min, and the submucosal injection sodium hyaluronate solution is obtained. The sodium hyaluronate solution is used for endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and is injected below a gastrointestinal mucous membrane, lesions can be fully swelled, a submucosal liquid cushion is formed, a submucosa and a muscular layer can be effectively separated, and bleeding, perforation and other complications can be reduced while electroexcision is facilitated.

The invention discloses a material with a bone repair effect. The material is epigallocatechin gallate cross-linked small intestinal submucosa, and the cross-linking index of the submucosa is 15.76-21.44%. The invention further provides a preparation method and application of the material. The material disclosed by the invention has excellent mechanical property and slow degradation, is capable ofmaintaining a space structure at the bone tissue regeneration position, has excellent biocompatibility and bone formation effects, overcomes the defects that the conventional small intestinal submucosa membrane serving as a guided bone regeneration membrane is poor in mechanical property, high in degradation speed, poor in space maintenance ability and the like, and has excellent clinical application prospects.