Michael Boutillette;Mark L. Mathis;Patrick Wu;David Lehrberg;David Thompson
发明人:
David Thompson,Patrick Wu,David Lehrberg,Mark L. Mathis,Michael Boutillette
申请号：
US12209631
公开号：
US08142455B2
申请日:
2008.09.12
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
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.
