Implant for urination simplification

2020: Doctors began to use implants for urination simplification

In the middle of November, 2020 researchers from the Pennsylvanian university developed the implanted device which helps to empty a bladder to patients with violations of nervous regulation. To Prispoobleniye it is intended for treatment of insufficient activity of a bladder - a status at which incomplete emptying of a bladder leads to irregular frequent urination. The new solution already began to be used in clinical practice in medical institutions of the State of Pennsylvania.

Researchers are interested long ago a problem of control over urination because the set of diseases and statuses is connected with it. So, the insufficient activity of a bladder not only is inconvenient from the social point of view, but also can lead to a delay of urine and serious injury of kidneys if urine accumulates and climbs mochetochnik in kidney lokhanka. Modern methods of treatment of insufficient activity of a bladder include medicinal therapy, surgical intervention or a samokateterization, but all of them have certain shortcomings of a type of limited efficiency, ghost effects, pain and other inconveniences.

The implanted device which helps to empty a bladder to patients with violations of nervous regulation is developed

To solve this problem, researchers from the Pennsylvanian university developed the new implanted device which can mechanically promote emptying of a bladder. The device is a polymeric cover which surrounds a bladder and can extend and contract in process of filling and emptying of a bubble. The implant contains sensors which define filling of a bladder and estimate need of its emptying. The device sends a signal to an electric muscle which begins to be reduced, thereby helping a bladder to be emptied.

Thanks to a unique serpentine form the device does not require use of glue or suture that simplifies implantation. The same serpentine construction allows an implant to drag on around a bladder, densely adjoining to it and also to hold electronic thread with sensors, preventing their sliding during reduction.^[1]

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