Method for treating benign prostate hyperplasia

摘要

A method and apparatus for treating a condition in a patient such as BPH, irretractable infection, cyst, fibroid, or any mass such as prostate or breast cancer, skin cancer, melanoma, or any other soft tissue cancerous or benign mass, employs a unique, three-dimensional software-controlled electronic amplifier array using arbitrary waveforms that dynamically and proportionally steer electrical currents by using two or more current vector paths, sequentially or simultaneously, through a defined area containing electrically-conductive ionic solutions so as to obtain 100% thermal heating or hyperthermia through the defined area. The condition is treated or a mass is destroyed with a minimally-invasive treatment which requires no radiation or chemotherapy which could be harmful to the patient.

主权项

1. A method of treating benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) within a patient's body, which comprises
positioning three or more electrode shafts comprising at least two electrode bands on each shaft in or around a patient's prostate gland to create a defined area; delivering signals that are DC arbitrary waveforms or AC arbitrary waveforms of a frequency of up to about 1 KHz to the electrode bands; and proportionately varying voltage amplitude and pulse-widths between the three or more electrode shafts to dynamically steer and focus ionic current vectors to the defined area to create and steer a hot zone in three dimensions within the defined area to resistively heat the defined area to alleviate BPH.