Non-invasive aortic impingement and core and cerebral temperature manipulation method
US5531776A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 27, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 2, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 27, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61N1/0517
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of non-invasively occluding the descending thoracic aorta to a desired extent in order to enhance cerebral and myocardial perfusion or the like, and/or of manipulating core and cerebral temperature of a patient, wherein a device is extended into the patient's esophagus and manipulated to selectively displace a wall of the esophagus toward the descending thoracic aorta to thereby at least partially occlude the latter, and/or to exchange heat between a device positioned in the patient's esophagus and a proximately located thoracic vessel in order to increase or decrease the temperature of blood flowing in such vessel.
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