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US005792119A
United States Patent [19] [ii] Patent Number: 5,792,119
Marx [45] Date of Patent: Aug. 11, 1998
[54] TUBULAR IMPLANT TO BE USED FOR PERCUTANEOUSLY FEEDING A PATIENT
[76] Inventor: Karl-Heinz Marx. Bekkamp 5, D-22045 Hamburg, Germany
[21] Appl. No.: 448352
[22] PCT Filed: Oct 20,1993
[86] PCT No.: PCT/EP93/02901
§ 371 Date: Apr. 25, 1995
§ 102(e) Date: Apr. 25, 1995 [87] PCT Pub. No.: WO94/09747
PCT Pub. Date: May 11,1994
[30] Foreign Application Priority Data
Oct. 27, 1993 [DE] Germany 42 36 210.5
[51] Int CI.6 A61M5/00
[52] U.S. CI 604/247; 604/175; 604/164;
604/268
[58] Field of Search 604/247. 264.
604/268. 164, 261. 256. 175, 105. 93, 27
[56] References Cited
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4,861,334 8/1989 Nawaz 604/49
4,863,438 9/1989 Gauderer et al 604/247
4,944,732 7/1990 Russo 604/247
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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
8906529 7/1989 WIPO 604/247
WO 89/06529 7/1989 WIPO .
Primary Examiner—Mark O. Polutta
Assistant Examiner—-Bruce E. Snow
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus. PA.
[57] ABSTRACT
A tubular implant to be used for percutaneously feeding a patient, which implant is made of resiliently deformable material and includes a distal enlargement adapted to be inserted into the stomach and having at least one opening and a proximally following central tubular section adapted to be inserted into a punctured hole extending from the outside into the stomach cavity, characterized in that the implant includes releasable tensioning or pinching means for reversibly reducing the diameter of the implant along its total length such that it is freely displaceable together with said means through a usual trocar sleeve.
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