NASAL NEUROMODULATION DEVICES AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20220313985A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17658051

    申请日:2022-04-05

    发明人: Scott J. WOLF

    IPC分类号: A61N1/05 A61N1/36 A61N1/40

    摘要: A method for treating nerves in a nasal cavity starts with identifying a patient having a condition occurring outside the nasal cavity. The method then involves activating a console attached to a radiofrequency stylus, advancing a distal tip of the radiofrequency stylus into a nostril of the patient, contacting nasal mucosa lining the nasal cavity with a treatment surface of the distal tip, and delivering radiofrequency energy from one set of bipolar electrodes on the treatment surface of the distal tip to a second set of bipolar electrodes on the treatment surface, to treat at least one nerve underlying the nasal mucosa. Treating the nerve (or nerves) involves modulating activity of the nerve to ameliorate the condition occurring outside the nasal cavity.

    METHODS AND DEVICES TO TREAT NASAL AIRWAYS

    公开(公告)号:US20220142699A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17649307

    申请日:2022-01-28

    摘要: Methods and devices for treating nasal airways are provided. Such devices and methods may improve airflow through an internal and/or external nasal valve, and comprise the use of mechanical re-shaping, energy application and other treatments to modify the shape, structure, and/or air flow characteristics of an internal nasal valve, an external nasal valve or other nasal airways.

    TREATING UPPER AIRWAY NERVE TISSUE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200205884A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16815717

    申请日:2020-03-11

    摘要: Systems and methods for treating a patient's mucus hypersecretion condition are disclosed herein. Certain implementations may involve a method for reducing mucus secretion in an upper airway of a patient to treat at least one of post nasal drip or chronic cough. The method may include advancing a treatment delivery portion of an energy-based treatment device into a nostril of the patient. The treatment delivery portion may contact mucosal tissue of the upper airway without piercing the mucosal tissue. The treatment delivery portion may deliver treatment to at least one tissue selected from the group of the mucosal tissue and another tissue underlying the mucosal tissue to modify a property of the at least one tissue and thus treat at least one of post nasal drip or chronic cough in the patient.

    METHODS OF TREATING NASAL AIRWAYS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200170699A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-04

    申请号:US16782803

    申请日:2020-02-05

    摘要: A device is described for treating a nasal airway by modifying a property of a nasal tissue of or near a nasal valve of the airway, without using a surgical incision or an implant, to decrease airflow resistance or perceived airflow resistance in the nasal airway. Various embodiments include an elongate shaft, a bipolar radiofrequency delivery member extending from one end of the shaft, and a handle attached to the elongate shaft at an opposite end from the radiofrequency delivery member. The radiofrequency delivery member is sized to be inserted into a nose and configured to at least temporarily deform the nasal tissue and deliver radiofrequency energy. The radiofrequency delivery member includes two rows of protruding electrodes disposed on a tissue contact surface, and the device is configured to deliver radiofrequency energy from one row of electrodes to the other row of electrodes.