Don TANAKA,Tom SAUL,Thomas MCGRATH,Jeffery A. KROLIK,Jeff BARBOUR,Amr SALAHIEH
申请号：
US14903289
公开号：
US20160374689A1
申请日:
2014.07.11
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
A device for mechanically reducing the volume of a lung, comprising a distal anchor, a proximal anchor, and a tether extending between the distal and proximal anchors, the device configured so that the distance between the anchors measured along the tether can be increased or decreased and maintained after release of a delivery device. Some embodiments are a method of endobronchially deploying an anchoring device within the lung to reduce the lung volume, the anchoring device comprising a distal anchor, a proximal anchor, and a tether extending between the distal and proximal anchors, the device configured such that the distance between the distal and proximal anchors measured along the tether can be increased or decreased and then maintained after release of the anchoring device from a delivery device, reducing the volume of the lung by decreasing the distance between the distal and proximal anchors, and maintaining the decreased distance.
