IMMOBILIZING OBJECTS IN THE BODY

摘要

The invention relates to a system for stabilizing an object formed of a natural or foreign biological material in the body of a patient comprising: a lower critical solution temperature material which remains in a flowable form below about a temperature inside the body of the patient and which forms a get about at and above the temperature inside the body of the patient; a catheter for tranferring the lower critical solution temperature material into the body in the flowable form; and a guide wire for introducing the catheter into the body and guiding it to about the location of the object; and a mechanism to force the lower critical solution temperature material in the flowable form through the catheter and into the body to contact the object such that the lower critical solution temperature material gels in the body due to the temperature inside the body and contains at least a portion of the object within the gel to stabilize the object with the gel.