Jaime Vasquez;Mark L. Mathis;Patrick Wu;David Thompson;Michael Boutillette;Nathan Aronson;David Lehrberg
发明人:
David Thompson,Nathan Aronson,Patrick Wu,David Lehrberg,Mark L. Mathis,Michael Boutillette,Jaime Vasquez
申请号:
US13618986
公开号:
US20130102887A1
申请日:
2012.09.14
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要:
A lung volume reduction system is disclosed comprising an implantable device adapted to be delivered to a lung airway of a patient in a delivery configuration and to change to a deployed configuration to bend the lung airway. The invention also discloses a method of bending a lung airway of a patient comprising inserting a device into the airway in a delivery configuration and bending the device into a deployed configuration, thereby bending the airway.