IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL LEADS WITH FLEXIBILITY AND EXTENSIBILITY TO FACILITATE BODY MOVEMENTS
摘要
Implantable medical leads that are flexible and extensible in a controllable manner to facilitate subject body movements, able to permit and withstand multiple degree of freedom of movement that are useful for use in the neck region of a subject body and other regions of any subject's body that may benefit from increased flexibility and extensibility. Features of medical leads are utilized to permit extensibility and are based upon the provision of shaped features that controllably permit lead extension under low load, but that maintain a desired shape under no load. The shaped lead portions provide extensibility to the lead as the shapes elastically deform under load. A shaping element, such as an elongate element or a tube defines and holds the lead in the desired shape, which may comprise one or more series of sigmoid shapes as a pattern.
申请公布号
WO2007127997(A2)
申请公布日期
2007.11.08
申请号
WO2007US67834
申请日期
2007.04.30
申请人
MEDTRONIC, INC.;CROSS, THOMAS E., JR.;WILLIAMS, MICHAELENE M.