Article: Shunt would improve quality of life for patients.

Article: Massachusetts Inventor Develops Shunt Valve ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 10, 2008 ;     541 words ... ... adjusting a locking mechanism of a shunt valve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shunt valve assembly includes an electromechanical ... pressure setting mechanism within a shunt valve assembly. The electromechanical ...

Article: Massachusetts, Indiana Inventors Develop Shunt ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 13, 2008 ;     542 words ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 13 -- Daniel McCusker of Bridgewater, Mass., Alan J. Dextradeur of Franklin, Mass., Rainuka Gupta of Cambridge, Mass., and Carleton Bryan Southworth of Warsaw, Ind., have developed a fluid flow control device locking assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark

Article: North Carolina Inventor Develops Barbed Bodily Tissue ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 6, 2007 ;     505 words ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- Gregory L. Ruff of Chapel Hill, N.C., has developed a barbed tissue connector for use in closing a body wound. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector includes an elongated ...

Article: Shunt would improve quality of life for patients.
Biotech Week;  November 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... to develop a new fixation technique, the so-called tissue connector, which allows for a larger shunt valve. Six different concepts for the tissue connector that fastens the shunt valve in place are being tested because, "It was impossible ...

Article: Airflow resistance of airflow-regulating devices described by ...
The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... exchange filter, laryngectomy, pressure drop, shunt valve, tracheostoma valve. INTRODUCTION The treatment ... trachea and esophagus. In the fistula, a shunt valve is placed.1 The shunt valve prevents food and fluid from entering the trachea ...

Article: Hydrocephalus valve can be adjusted externally.
Biomedical Materials;  February 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...A surgically implantable shunt valve system for draining fluid from ... Massachusetts-based inventors, the shunt valve system includes a housing with ... adjust the threshold pressure of the shunt valve without surgical removal. This ...

Article: Programmable shunt radiography. (Radiography).
Radiologic Technology;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... introduced their programmable ventricular shunt valve, formerly referred to as the Codman ... programmable valve, this ventricular shunt valve was developed in response to the shortcomings ... change in the operating pressure of the shunt valve. (See Fig. 4.) The motor can be ...