Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Neuromodulation and associated systems and methods for the management of pain
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Application No.: US16988068Application Date: 2020-08-07
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Publication No.: US11515029B2Publication Date: 2022-11-29
- Inventor: Carol Sullivan , Neil Barman , Dwayne S. Yamasaki
- Applicant: Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
- Applicant Address: LU Luxembourg
- Assignee: Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
- Current Assignee: Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: LU Luxembourg
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; G16H20/30 ; A61N2/00 ; G16H50/30 ; G16H20/40 ; A61B18/02 ; A61F7/12 ; A61N7/00 ; A61B5/145 ; A61B18/00 ; A61N7/02 ; A61F7/00 ; A61B5/024 ; A61B18/14 ; A61N1/36 ; G16H10/20

Abstract:
Methods for treating and managing pain in a patient with therapeutic neuromodulation and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. Chronic or debilitating pain can be associated, for example, with a disease or condition of the abdominal or reproductive viscera. One aspect of the present technology is directed to methods that at least partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in nerves proximate a target blood vessel of a diseased or damaged organ of a patient experiencing pain. Targeted sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated at least along afferent pathways which can improve a measurable parameter associated with the pain of the patient The modulation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a therapeutic assembly, e.g., a therapeutic assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the target sympathetic nerve.
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