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Reorientation port

US8187162B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · US

Inventors

Jonathan Allen Coe · Menlo Park, US
Christine H. Chen · Cincinnati, US
Juan S. Ezolino · Weston, US
Kevin D. Felder · Cincinnati, US
Eric Thompson · Low Wood, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 6, 2008
Grant date	May 29, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 30, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61M2210/1053
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Various methods and devices are provided for reorienting an implantable port. In one embodiment, an implantable port is provided and includes a base adapted to be anchored to tissue, and a housing pivotally mounted on the base and having a septum formed therein and adapted to receive fluid and to provide access to a fluid reservoir formed within the housing. In an exemplary embodiment, the housing can be pivotally mounted to the base using a ball and socket joint. For example, at least one of a distal surface of the housing and a proximal surface of the base is convex, and the other one of the distal surface of the housing and the proximal surface of the base is concave.

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