Apparatus and methods for balancing a joint

    公开(公告)号:US11540895B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16456270

    申请日:2019-06-28

    申请人: Scripps Health

    摘要: A joint replacement balancing system which provides real-time feedback to a surgeon during a joint replacement surgery to assist the surgeon to balance a joint replacement. The joint replacement balancing system includes a non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive a signal from a joint balancing apparatus, determine if the joint replacement is out of balance, determine a corrective course of action to bring the joint into balance and generate and display to the surgeon during the joint replacement surgery a recommended corrective course of action to complete the joint replacement surgery.

    Methods of treating a neuroendocrine tumor

    公开(公告)号:US10180422B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-15

    申请号:US15683630

    申请日:2017-08-22

    申请人: Scripps Health

    发明人: Darren Sigal

    摘要: Disclosed herein, are methods of treating a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) in an individual in need thereof, comprising administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that inhibits a tropomyosin receptor kinase (Trk) protein, wherein the NET is associated with a Trk protein that has undergone a genetic translocation or is an NTRK gene fusion protein. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) in an individual in need thereof, comprising: (a) obtaining a sample of NET genetic material from the individual; (b) determining whether the NET tumor comprises a NTRK translocation or gene fusion; and (c) administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that inhibits a tropomyosin receptor kinase (Trk) protein.